Al Roker to Receive Honors for 3 Award Wins at the TASTE AWARDS

NBC NEWS ANCHORS AND CORRESPONDENTS — Pictured: Al Roker, Weather and Feature Anchor “TODAY” and Co-Host “3rd Hour of TODAY” — (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)

The TASTE AWARDS Committee is pleased to announce that Al Roker will receive three awards this season. His award wins are for Best Food Program – Online or Streaming, Best Food Travel Series – Online and Streaming, and Best New Series.

Al Roker is the weather and feature anchor of NBC News’ “TODAY,” co-host of the”3rd Hour of TODAY” and a bestselling author. Roker co-hosts Sirius XM’s “Off the Rails” with Dylan Dreyer and Sheinelle Jones and hosts “Family Style with Al Roker” on TODAY All Day. Since 1985, Roker has co-hosted the annual Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting. He also co-hosts the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Rose Bowl Parade. Roker is the founder of Al Roker Entertainment, Inc. (ARE), a thriving multimedia company involved in the development and production of network, cable, home video, and public television projects.

Raised in Queens, New York, Roker received his B.A. in Communications from the State University at Oswego in 1976, and he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the school in 1998. He resides in Manhattan with his wife, ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts. Roker has two daughters and one son.

For over a decade, the TASTE AWARDS have been the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, Health, Travel, and Lifestyle programs in Film, Television, Online & Streaming Video, Podcasts, Radio and Photography.

The TASTE AWARDS have included appearances by stars, celebrities, producers and executives from networks and platforms such as the Food Network, the Style Network, Bravo, the Cooking Channel, TLC, Discovery, Lifetime, E! Entertainment Television, PBS, Create TV, APT, NETA, NBC, ABC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Dreamworks, Esquire Network, FYI Network, The History Channel, Bio, iHeart Radio, Sony Pictures, HBO Max, Entertainment Studios’ Recipe.TV, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tastemade, AMC International, the Africa Channel, Roku, Vimeo, Vice, Vox, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and more.

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TASTE AWARDS Announce Craft Category Award Winners

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to pre-announce Award Winners in the Craft Award Categories for its 14th Anniversary Year.

SEE THE FULL AWARDS LIST

In addition, the awards announce that this year’s 14th Anniversary Red Carpet Awards Show, Reception and Ceremony will take place on March 13, 2023 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, the first in-person since 2020.

Portions of this event will be filmed for broadcast on various public television stations across the United States starting in April and May 2023.

Awards Show Tickets can be reserved here.

For over a decade, the TASTE AWARDS have been the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, Health, Travel, and Lifestyle programs in Film, Television, Online & Streaming Video, Podcasts, Radio and Photography.

Winners, Honorees and Hall of Fame Inductees will receive their honors in person at the star-studded ceremony.

The TASTE AWARDS have included appearances by stars, celebrities, producers and executives from networks and platforms such as the Food Network, the Style Network, Bravo, the Cooking Channel, TLC, Discovery, Lifetime, E! Entertainment Television, PBS, Create TV, APT, NETA, NBC, ABC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Dreamworks, Esquire Network, FYI Network, The History Channel, Bio, iHeart Radio, Sony Pictures, HBO Max, Entertainment Studios’ Recipe.TV, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tastemade, AMC International, the Africa Channel, Roku, Vimeo, Vice, Vox, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and more.

CRAFT AWARDS

Best Studio or Production Company

  • Carol Alt Living Room
  • Catherine‘s Farmhouse Kitchen
  • Global Gourmet with Essie Bartels
  • Living By Design with Jake and Jazz
  • Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
  • Maestros de la empanada
  • Meat and Three
  • Off Menu
  • Paris Bistro Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams
  • Time for Lunch
  • VegHeadz (Gusto TV) – WINNER

Best Set Design

  • America’s Test Kitchen – WINNER
  • Catherine‘s Farmhouse Kitchen
  • Cooks Country
  • Culture Kitchen with Bren Herrera
  • La recicladora de muebles
  • Pie in the Sky
  • VegHeadz

Best Cinematographer

  • Another Harvest
  • Criollo
  • Franciacorta – A Golden Feeling – WINNER
  • Great Getaways: Namibia, Africa with Zahirah Marty
  • Regarding flowers
  • Terroir to Table – Wine lovers’ guide to food & wine
  • Travels with Darley
  • Wallace Chan – The Art of Materials

Best Director

  • Another Harvest
  • Criollo
  • Eastbound Westbound – A Winemaker’ Story from Bordeaux and California
  • Franciacorta – A Golden Feeling
  • GOLA on the Road with Katie Parla & Danielle Callegari – “Olive Oil”
  • Lidia Celebrates America: Overcoming the Odds
  • Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter – WINNER
  • Paris Bistro Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams
  • Pie in the Sky
  • Regarding flowers
  • Test Kitchen – Pandemic Dance No. 5

Best Producer

  • Catherine‘s Farmhouse Kitchen
  • Culture Kitchen with Bren Herrera
  • Great Getaways: Namibia, Africa with Zahirah Marty
  • International Digital Fashion Week
  • Let’s Make Food From Food with Michelle Ullmann
  • Living By Design with Jake and Jazz
  • Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter
  • Me Voy a Comer El Mundo
  • Paris Bistro Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams (Recipe.TV) – WINNER
  • Terroir to Table TV-version
  • Travels with Darley
  • What You’re Eating Podcast

Best Host

  • A Taste of the Past
  • All in the Industry – WINNER
  • Boss Girl’s Guide with Tiffany M. Battle
  • Catherine‘s Farmhouse Kitchen
  • Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television – WINNER
  • Cleo Chronicles with Cuban Link
  • Cleo Chronicles with Dutchess
  • Food & Wine with Chef Jamie Gwen
  • Global Gourmet with Essie Bartels
  • Let’s Make Food From Food with Michelle Ullmann
  • Living By Design with Jake and Jazz
  • Paris Bistro Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams
  • Remodela sin obra
  • Sip & Chew with Mike and Stu
  • Take a Hike
  • Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi: Holiday Edition
  • The Speakeasy
  • Travels with Darley
  • V is for Vino
  • Weekends with Yankee
  • Welcome to my Farm
  • Wine Road Podcast

Lidia Bastianich to receive the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Awards at the TASTE AWARDS

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Award.

THE ANDREW ZIMMERN DISCOVERY AWARD honors the mission to discover new cultures, new flavors, or new talent. The inaugural winners of this new award were Andrew Zimmern and Tyler Florence.

This year’s winner, based on years of contributions to culinary, television, and entrepreneurial talent is celebrity chef, TV host and producer, author, and founder of Eataly, Lidia Bastianich.

TASTE Hall of Fame Inductee Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an Emmy award-winning public television host, best‐selling cookbook author, successful restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Most importantly, she has accomplished all of this by marrying her two passions in life—her family and food—to create multiple culinary endeavors alongside her two children, Joseph and Tanya.

Lidia has published numerous cookbooks, co-authored with her daughter Tanya, and companion books to her Emmy-winning television series Lidia’s Kitchen, Lidia’s Italy in America, and Lidia’s Italy. Her most recent book is Lidia’s A Pot, A Pan, and a Bowl, a companion to her new 26-part public television series, Lidia’s Kitchen. She is also the author of the English and Italian version of her memoir: My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food. Lidia’s cooking shows air nationwide in the U.S. on public television and CREATE, internationally, and on various digital networks including Amazon Prime, Tubitv, and Xumo. Her cooking segments are also part of her TUTTOLIDIA YouTube channel.

Lidia is a celebrated chef and restaurateur and a partner in Eataly NYC, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Dallas, Las Vegas, Toronto, and Sao Paolo, Brazil. Together with Tanya and son-in-law Corrado, she also developed a line of artisanal pastas and all-natural sauces called LIDIA’S.

Lidia is a member of Les Dames D’Escoffier and founding member of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, two non-profit organizations of women leaders in the food and hospitality industries. She is also a champion for the United Nations Association of the United States of America’s Adopt-A-Future program, in support of refugee education.

Among the numerous awards and accolades Lidia has earned are seven James Beard Awards (Outstanding Chef, Television Food Show, Best Chefs in America, Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America, Specials 2016, Special 2017 and 2018) and two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Culinary Host (2013 and 2018). In 2022 Lidia received the Silver Award from APT for 25 years on Public Television

TASTE AWARDS Pre-Announce Selected Winners and March 13 Date in Beverly Hills

 

The TASTE AWARDS are pleased to pre-announce Award Winners in selected categories, as well as various Special Achievement Award Honorees, and final nominees in the Craft Award Categories for its 14th Anniversary Year.

The winners also include those chosen to receive the Andrew Zimmern Discovery Award and the inaugural BOB SAGET Award for Best Comedy or Humor.

Says an Awards Committee spokesperson, “This has been a fantastic year. We are amazed by the level of quality in this year’s entries, as well as the scope and range of the diversity of the award winners in terms of gender, ethnicity, geography, organization size, and topics, more so than any current awards organization.”

SEE THE FULL AWARDS LIST

In addition, the awards announce that this year’s 14th Anniversary Red Carpet Awards Show, Reception and Ceremony will take place on March 13, 2023 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, the first in-person since 2020.

Portions of this event will be filmed for broadcast on various public television stations across the United States starting in April and May 2023.

Awards Show Tickets can be reserved here.

For over a decade, the TASTE AWARDS have been the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, Health, Travel, and Lifestyle programs in Film, Television, Online & Streaming Video, Podcasts, Radio and Photography.

Winners, Honorees and Hall of Fame Inductees will receive their honors in person at the star-studded ceremony.

Viewer’s Choice Voting for selected categories is open now through February 17th here.

The TASTE AWARDS have included appearances by stars, celebrities, producers and executives from networks and platforms such as the Food Network, the Style Network, Bravo, the Cooking Channel, TLC, Discovery, Lifetime, E! Entertainment Television, PBS, Create TV, APT, NETA, NBC, ABC, the CW, HGTV, the Travel Channel, HD Net, Hulu, YouTube, Dreamworks, Esquire Network, FYI Network, The History Channel, Bio, iHeart Radio, Sony Pictures, HBO Max, Entertainment Studios’ Recipe.TV, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tastemade, AMC International, the Africa Channel, Roku, Vimeo, Vice, Vox, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and more.

TASTE AWARDS Announce The Bob Saget Award for Best Comedy and Humor

The TASTE AWARDS Committee is honored to announce the renaming of the Best Comedy Award to its new name, The Bob Saget Award for Best Comedy and Humor. The award is named after the late Bob Saget, best known for his role in the hit series Full House and its recent sequel, Fuller House.

Says A.K. Crump of the TASTE AWARDS, “We are all honored to be able to remember Bob and his contribution to our culture, to families, and to comedy with this newly renamed award.”

Saget is survived by his wife, Kelly Rizzo of Eat Travel Rock, and three daughters — Aubrey, Lara and Jennifer — whom he shared with ex-wife Sherri Kramer.

 

Best Foreign Language Award Categories change Name to Best Non-English Language Awards

In recognition of the increasing influence of non-English productions on entertainment and creativity, as well as reexamination of the use of the word “foreign” and what it connotes, the Awards Committee has voted to follow other major awards competitions and rename the awards categories using the term Foreign to “Non-English”

We believe this better reflects consumer tastes, audience demographics, and other global trends.

Going forward these awards are now:

  • Best Non-English Language Program, Series or Film