New Award Categories Announced for this Year’s TASTE AWARDS

To better spotlight the Craft and International areas of the field, new categories have been added to this year’s TASTE AWARDS!

They are:

  • Best Producer
  • – Best Director
  • – Best Cinematographer
  • – Best Host
  • – Best Stylist: Food or Fashion
  • – Best Multi Camera Production
  • – Best Single Camera Production
  • – Best Studio or Production Company
  • – Best Student Production
  • – Best Fashion Runway Video

For advertising firms, the Best Branded category has been changed to Best Branded Video or Commercial Advertisement, PSA, or Promo

The International Award Categories have been formalized as well. In addition to Best International program, film, or documentary, they include:

  • Best of Latin/South America
  • – Best of Canada
  • – Best of the UK
  • – Best of Europe (excl. UK)
  • – Best of Oceania (Australia, NZ, etc)
  • – Best of Japan
  • – Best of Asia (excl. Japan)
  • – Best of Africa, India & Middle East

Continuing categories include:

CATEGORIES
FORMAT
Best Drink or Beverage Program Television
Best Drink or Beverage Program Web
Best Food Program Television
Best Food Program Web
Best Food Travel Series Television
Best Food Travel Series Web
Best Reality Series: Food or Drink All
Best Fashion or Design Program: Television
Best Fashion or Design Program Web
Best Reality Series: Fashion, Design or Home Decor Television
Best Home Decor and Design Program All
Best Green or Organic Program, Series, or Film All
Best City or Regional Program All
All
Best New Series All
Best Single Topic Series All
Best Critic or Review Series All
Best Chef in a Series All
Best Ethnic Program, Series or Film: Hispanic/Latino All
Best Ethnic Program, Series or Film: Asian All
Best Ethnic Program, Series or Film: Black All
Best Foreign Language Program, Series or Film All
Best Nature or Science Program, Film or Documentary All
INTERNATIONAL *
FORMAT
Best of Canada All
Best of the UK All
Best of Oceania (Australia, NZ, etc) All
Best of Latin/South America All
Best of Japan All
Best of Asia (excl. Japan) All
Best of Europe (Excluding U.K.) All
Best of Africa, India & Middle East All
HEALTH & LIFE *
FORMAT
Health & Fitness (Physical & Exercise) All
Health & Fitness (Food and Diet) All
Health & Fitness (Mental or Spiritual) All
Best Health & Fitness Program, Film or Documentary All
Best Action Sports, Adventure, or Outdoors Program, Film or Documentary All
CATEGORIES
FORMAT
Best Home Chef in a Series All
Best Comedy Series All
Best Food or Drink Radio Broadcast Radio
Best Food or Drink Podcast (non-video) Podcast
Best Travel program All
Best Branded Video or Commercial Advertisement, PSA, or Promo All
Best Animation All
Best Interactive eBook eBooks
Best Mobile Apps Apps
Best Beauty program All
Best International Program All
Best Feature-Length Film or Documentary running time of over 40 minutes
Best Short Film or Documentary running time of 10-40 minutes
Best Mini Film or Documentary running time of 1-10 minutes
Live Food & Wine Event or Festival Live Events
Best Producer All
Best Director All
Best Cinematographer All
Best Host All
Best Stylist: Food or Fashion All
Best Studio or Production Company All
OTHER *
FORMAT
Best Lifestyle Podcast Podcast
Best Photography Food/Fashion/Travel
Best How-To or Instructional Web Series Web
Fashion Film (under 15 minutes) All
Best Fashion or Beauty Podcast Podcast
Best Fashion Runway Video Digital Video
Best Social Media Short Video: Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Snapchat Digital Video
Best Virtual Reality Film or Documentary All
Entertainment News Series All
Best Student Production All
Fictional Series (on Food, Fashion or Design) Television and Web
Best Kids Program or Film Television and Web/Streaming
Best Filmed-at-Home Program Episode (Due to COVID-19) All
Best Multi Camera Production All
Best Single Camera Production All
Best Virtual Tastings or Demo Video – Restaurants, Chefs, Wineries, Fitness, Wellness, Authors (Due to COVID-19) Digital Video
Best Series Pilot All
Best TikTok Video Platform Specific

TASTE AWARDS Winners Announced, Plus Additional Award Honorees


The TASTE AWARDS announced this year’s Award Winners and additional Honorees for its 12th Anniversary Year during a stylish and exciting virtual broadcast that reached viewers across the globe, from Japan and England to Poland, Italy and South Africa, and from New Zealand to Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

Winners include the new ANDREW ZIMMERN DISCOVERY AWARD. This award honors the mission to discover new cultures, new flavors, or new talent. The inaugural honorees of this new award are Andrew Zimmern and Tyler Florence.

 

Other well known personalities who won or were honored include Ming Tsai, Selena Gomez, Idris Elba, Dylan Dreyer, Chef John Folse, and Lidi Bastianich, along with Bravo’s Top Chef, America’s Test Kitchen, NHK, the Africa Channel, and New Soul Kitchen. See all of the winners and additional honorees below.

 

Some participating Celebrity awards presenters include Michelle Harris (Alive and Well TV), Kim Estes (Emmy nominated actor), Jernard Wells (Food Network, Cleo TV), Mickela Mallozzi (PBS, CreateTV), Danielle Nottingham (NBC), Margaret McSweeney (Kitchen Chat), Chris Knight (Gusto TV), Andrea Feczko, Joanne Weir, Jazz and Jake Smollett, the Food Nanny (IG).

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, 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, APT, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and more. See them at http://www.TheTasteAwards.com.


12th ANNUAL TASTE AWARDS WINNERS


Best Chef in a Series

  • Bravo’s Top Chef: What Would Tom Do? [Tom Colicchio]”
  • Confucius Was a Foodie”
  • Cook Like a Chef
  • Eating In with Lidia: Back to Basics”
  • Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
  • Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places, Season Three
  • Lidia Celebrates America: Return of the Artisans
  • New Soul Kitchen with Chef Jernard   (WINNER)
  • A Taste of Ireland: Ballyknocken Cookery School Episode Title: “Barnyard Bash”
  • Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with Andrew Zimmern   (WINNER)
  • Wolf it Down, with Tyler Florence

Best Food Program – Television

  • A Taste of Ireland: Ballyknocken Cookery School
  • America’s Test Kitchen — “Childhood Favorites for Grown Ups”
  • Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
  • Confucius Was a Foodie   (WINNER)
  • Flavor of Poland
  • Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places, Season Three
  • Lidia Celebrates America: Return of the Artisans
  • Moveable Feast: On the Road in Cambridge, UK
  • My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas
  • New Soul Kitchen with Chef Jernard
  • Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with Andrew Zimmern

Best Food Program – Online and Streaming

  • America’s Test Kitchen: Boot Camp   (WINNER)
  • Bravo’s Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen   (WINNER)
  • Cooks Thyme with Chef Tobias Cooks
  • Eat Travel Rock Productions Reel Featuring Beatnik Chicago
  • How To Cook That by Ann Reardon
  • Lorna With A Pinch Of Salt
  • New Soul Kitchen with Chef Jernard
  • The Trailer Park Cooking Show With Jolene Sugarbaker
  • The Wiseguy Kitchen – The Historic Kapok Tree
  • The Worlds Oldest Restaurant: 300 Year Old Sobrino de Botín

Best Food Travel Series – Online & Streaming

  • A Taste of Scotland
  • Bad Ideas
  • Cup of Joe
  • Eat Travel Rock TV
  • Kitchen Chat
  • The Wiseguy Kitchen – The Historic Kapok Tree
  • The Worlds Oldest Restaurant: 300 Year Old Sobrino de Botín   (WINNER)

Best Food Travel Series – Television

  • A Taste of Ireland: Ballyknocken Cookery School
  • A Taste of Scotland
  • Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
  • Confucius Was a Foodie
  • Flavor of Poland
  • Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
  • Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places, Season Three
  • Lens of Culture
  • Lidia Celebrates America: Return of the Artisans   (WINNER)
  • Moveable Feast: On the Road in Cambridge, UK
  • My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas

Best Reality Series

  • Cup of Joe   (WINNER)
  • Family Style, Season 2
  • I’ll Have What You’re Having   (WINNER)
  • Just Eats with Chef JJ
  • New Day New Chef : Support and Feed Edition
  • Tastes Like Home – Bringing a recipe from Lusk in Ireland to Sydney Australia   (WINNER)
  • The Wiseguy Kitchen – The Historic Kapok Tree
  • What’s On the Menu with Michelle Ullmann

Best Drink or Beverage Program

  • Agave Road Trip
  • Beer Sessions Radio
  • Dads Drinking Bourbon
  • Eat Travel Rock TV
  • Family Style, Season 2
  • Hard Core
  • Lorna With A Pinch Of Salt
  • The 3 Julias on 30A Television
  • The Speakeasy   (WINNER)
  • Wine Soundtrack
  • Wines To Find Podcast

Best Branded Program, Native Content, Video, or Advertisement
Presented by R&B Celllars

  • BOSS EYEWEAR | Sharpen your focus |Starring Henry Cavill
  • Eat Travel Rock TV   (WINNER)
  • Exquisit Schnaps and fine Vinegar in Austria/Europe
  • Family Style, Season 2
  • Fresh Up Your Life
  • Get Away for a Day with Allyshia Renay: International Edition!
  • Kitchenside Talks
  • The Wiseguy Kitchen: The Historic Kapok Tree
  • Travelers by Nature

Best Green or Organic Program, Series or Film

  • Fresh Up Your Life   (WINNER)
  • MÁS Sano, MÁS Rico
  • Nardelli al Natural (All natural Nardelli)
  • New Day New Chef
  • New Day New Chef : Support and Feed Edition

Best New Series

  • Agave Road Trip   (WINNER)
  • Catherine’s Farmhouse Kitchen: Quarantine Edition
  • Chrissy’s Court
  • Flavor of Poland
  • Lens of Culture
  • Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini   (WINNER)
  • New Day New Chef
  • Selena + Chef
  • The Worlds Oldest Restaurant: 300 Year Old Sobrino de Botín
  • Valcooks Kitchen
  • Wines To Find Podcast

Best Single Topic Series, Presented by Gowan’s Cider

  • Agave Road Trip
  • America’s Test Kitchen — “Cooking For One” Series   (WINNER)
  • Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
  • Confucius Was a Foodie
  • Dads Drinking Bourbon
  • How To Cook That by Ann Reardon
  • Opening Soon
  • Pit Bulls & Parolees
  • The Speakeasy
  • Wines To Find Podcast

Best Nature or Science Program, Film or Documentary

  • The Aquarium   (WINNER)
  • Eick on a Hike: Best Day Hikes in Lassen Volcanic National Park
  • NASA’s Incredible Discovery Machine: The Story of the Hubble Space Telescope   (WINNER)

Best Health & Fitness Program, Film or Documentary

  • Eick on a Hike: Best Day Hikes in Lassen Volcanic National Park   (WINNER)
  • Iron Sharpens Iron
  • New Day New Chef
  • New Day New Chef : Support and Feed Edition
  • The Art of Natural Healing

Best Food or Drink Podcast

  • Afros and Knives Podcast   (WINNER)
  • Agave Road Trip
  • Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
  • Cooks Thyme with Chef Tobias Cooks
  • Dads Drinking Bourbon
  • Meat and Three
  • S.A.L.T. Lab Radio
  • Sips, Suds, & Smokes
  • The Bite Goes On
  • The Grape Nation
  • The Speakeasy   (WINNER)
  • Wine Road Podcast
  • Wine Soundtrack
  • Wines To Find Podcast

Best Travel Program

  • A Taste of Scotland
  • Adventure Horizon (Gorizont Priklyucheniy)
  • Confucius Was a Foodie
  • Flavor of Poland
  • Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
  • Lens of Culture   (WINNER)
  • Los favoritos de Margarita Carrillo
  • Los Petersen en la Patagonia (Cooking the Patagonia with the Petersen’s)
  • Moveable Feast: On the Road in Cambridge, UK
  • Somebody Feed Phil
  • Tastes Like Home – Bringing a recipe from Kildare, Ireland to Jeju in South Korea
  • Weekends With Yankee: Deep Roots

Best City or Regional Program

  • Weekends With Yankee: Deep Roots (WINNER)
  • Whats On The Menu With Michelle Ullmann, Pierogies Factory
  • Wine Road Podcast   

Best Ethnic Lifestyle Series, Program or Film

  • Confucius Was a Foodie   (WINNER)
  • Felicitas Parrillera (Felicitas’ BBQ)
  • Get Away for a Day with Allyshia Renay: International Edition!
  • Lens of Culture
  • Los favoritos de Margarita Carrillo
  • Los Fogones Tradicionales: MÉXICO (Ancient fires: Mexico)
  • New Soul Kitchen with Chef Jernard
  • Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with Andrew Zimmern   (WINNER)

Best International Program

  • A Taste of Ireland: Ballyknocken Cookery School
  • Christmas with Bonacini
  • Confucius Was a Foodie   (WINNER)
  • Cook Like a Chef
  • Crikey! It’s the Irwins: Bindi’s Wedding
  • Felicitas Parrillera (Felicitas’ BBQ)
  • Flavor of Poland
  • Great Getaways: Cologne, Germany
  • Los Fogones Tradicionales: MÉXICO (Ancient fires: Mexico)
  • Los Petersen en la Patagonia (Cooking the Patagonia with the Petersen’s)
  • Maestros del Ceviche (Ceviche Masters)
  • Parrilla a la mexicana
  • Tastes Like Home – Bringing a recipe from Kildare, Ireland to Jeju in South Korea
  • Watts on the Grill

Best Foreign Language Program, Series or Film

  • Exquisit Schnaps and fine Vinegar in Austria/Europe
  • Los favoritos de Margarita Carrillo
  • Los Fogones Tradicionales: MÉXICO (Ancient fires: Mexico)
  • Los Petersen en la Patagonia (Cooking the Patagonia with the Petersen’s)   (WINNER)
  • MÁS Sano, MÁS Rico
  • Nardelli al Natural (All natural Nardelli)
  • Parrilla a la mexicana
  • Supera Esto (Chef’s showdown)
  • Wine Crush (Vas-y Coupe!)
  • Wine Soundtrack

BEST MINI FILM OR DOCUMENTARY (5-10 MINUTES)

  • 541: A Place For The Community
  • Eat Travel Rock Productions Reel Featuring Beatnik Chicago
  • Eick on a Hike: Best Day Hikes in Lassen Volcanic National Park
  • Exquisit Schnaps and fine Vinegar in Austria/Europe
  • Master Artcraft Perfumer
  • The Biodynamical Way
  • The Worlds Oldest Restaurant: 300 Year Old Sobrino de Botín   (WINNER)

BEST SHORT FILM OR DOCUMENTARY (10-40 MINUTES)

  • Chronicles of Gnarnia: The Rex Chadwick Story
  • Get Away for a Day with Allyshia Renay: International Edition!
  • In the Desert of Eternity
  • Italy In Bocca   (WINNER)
  • NO SINGLE ORIGIN
  • QUẬN 13
  • Russia through the Eyes of Foreigners. While Moscow was the Capital

BEST FEATURE-LENGTH FILM OR DOCUMENTARY

  • Alaska Long Hunters
  • Lidia Celebrates America: Return of the Artisans
  • Weed & Wine   (WINNER)
  • Wine Crush (Vas-y Coupe!)

BEST FASHION FILM

  • Alex
  • Behind the Curtain   (WINNER)
  • fashion inspiration nature
  • Human Library

BEST ACTION SPORTS, ADVENTURE, OR OUTDOORS FILM

  • Eick on a Hike: Best Day Hikes in Lassen Volcanic National Park   
  • Elba vs. Block (WINNER)
  • Iron Sharpens Iron
  • Life Size Toys
  • SKRRT with Offset 

Best Social Media Short Video

  • America’s Test Kitchen — “Cooking For One” Series   (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
  • Eat Travel Rock Productions Reel Featuring Beatnik Chicago
  • Fresh Up Your Life
  • Koo 80th Birthday Video Campaign
  • The Food Nanny
  • Valcooks Kitchen

Best Lifestyle Podcast

  • S.A.L.T. Lab Radio
  • Sips, Suds, & Smokes
  • The Swirl Suite Podcast
  • Wine Road Podcast   (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)

Best Home Decor and Design Program

  • Barkitecture
  • Living By Design
  • La recicladora de muebles   (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
  • Murder House Flip

Best Comedy or Humor

  • Bad Ideas
  • Chrissy’s Court
  • Gayme Show
  • Gone Mental with Lior
  • Kirby Jenner
  • Memory Hole
  • Nice One!
  • Nikki Fre$h
  • Punk’d
  • Somebody Feed Phil
  • The 3 Julias on 30A Television
  • The CORONA DIALOGUES
  • The Trailer Park Cooking Show With Jolene Sugarbaker   (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
  • What’s On the Menu with Michelle Ullmann

Best Filmed at Home Episodes or Film

  • America’s Test Kitchen: Boot Camp  
  • Catherine’s Farmhouse Kitchen: Quarantine Edition
  • Crikey! It’s the Irwins: Bindi’s Wedding
  • Eat Travel Rock TV
  • Family Style, Season 2
  • Italy In Bocca
  • Meat and Three
  • Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini
  • New Day New Chef : Support and Feed Edition   (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
  • Opening Soon
  • Selena + Chef
  • The Speakeasy

Best Series Pilot

  • Catherine’s Farmhouse Kitchen: Quarantine Edition
  • Cook Like a Chef
  • Hard Core
  • ILLVILLE
  • Living By Design
  • Mind Exchange Music Presents: Layne Marie Williams The Adventures of Ms Glitch Live Film Score
  • Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini
  • New Day New Chef   (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
  • Wolf it Down, with Tyler Florence

Best Instructional Web Series

  • America’s Test Kitchen — “Cooking For One” Series
  • America’s Test Kitchen: Boot Camp
  • Chef Schulz’s “How To”    (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
  • Cooking Issues
  • Fresh Up Your Life
  • The Trailer Park Cooking Show With Jolene Sugarbaker

Best Food or Drink Radio Broadcast

  • All in the Industry
  • Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
  • Sips, Suds, & Smokes   (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
  • Take Away Only
  • The Grape Nation
  • The Swirl Suite Podcast
  • Wine Road Podcast

Best Home Chef in a Series

  • Cooks Thyme with Chef Tobias Cooks
  • Living By Design
  • Selena + Chef   (VIEWERS CHOICE WINNER)
  • Tastes Like Home – Bringing a recipe from Lusk in Ireland to Sydney Australia
  • The 3 Julias on 30A Television
  • The Trailer Park Cooking Show With Jolene Sugarbaker
  • Valcooks Kitchen


ADDITIONAL SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD HONOREES ANNOUNCED


 

BEST OF CANADA AWARD

  • Cook Like a Chef

BEST OF EUROPE AWARD

  • Flavor of Poland
  • Great Getaways: Cologne, Germany 

BEST OF OCEANIA AWARD

  • How To Cook That by Ann Reardon

BEST OF AFRICA AWARD

  • Lorna With A Pinch Of Salt

OUTSTANDING ANIMATION

  • Ryori  (Brian Yulo Ng, Director)

OUTSTANDING KIDS PROGRAMMING

  • A Taste of Scotland (Twice as Good Show)

A FULL LIST OF ALL HONOREES AND HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES CAN BE SEEN HERE


TASTE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED


  • April McClure – Southern California Piers
  • Bozena Garbinska – Grapes
  • Devin DePamphilis – Jumping in Ice Cream
  • Dilip Khatri – Cactus Lane
  • Matt Armendariz – Abalone Carpaccio, Jordan Winery.jpg
  • Michelle Ullmann – Girl and Her Wolf
  • Peter Irgens, Charlotte Andersen – Nutcracker twenty20
  • Wendy Bednarz – Surma, ARTifice Traces Suri in Present
  • Xu Han – Food 

Devin DePamphilis – Jumping in Ice Cream


 

Watch the 2021 TASTE AWARDS Show HERE

WATCH THE 2021 TASTE AWARDS ON APRIL 12TH

The TASTE AWARDS Show is coming to a screen near you on, and viewable on Facebook and on the TASTE AWARDS website**.

Come watch it and see who wins, celebrate some of the most exciting and creative food, fashion and lifestyle programs, videos, films, series, podcasts and radio.

This year’s TASTE AWARDS all digital and all virtual awards show features a star-studded lineup of food and fashion TV, Film and Video celebrities, including winners, nominees and presenters. Some participating Celebrity awards presenters include Michelle Harris (Alive and Well TV), Kim Estes (Emmy nominated actor), Jernard Wells (Food Network, Cleo TV), Mickela Mallozzi (PBS, CreateTV), Danielle Nottingham (NBC), Margaret McSweeney (Kitchen Chat), Chris Knight (Gusto TV), Andrea Feczko, Joanne Weir, Jazz and Jake Smollett, the Food Nanny (IG). More to be announced shortly.

WHEN: April 12, 5:30 PM Pacific Time (LA/SF Time Zone)
WHERE: On the Awards Site and Facebook
HOW: Go to www.TheTasteAwards.com and www.facebook.com/tastyawards

** As with most awards shows this year (Critics Choice, SAG, WGA, the Gothams, Emmys, Grammys, BET, Music Video Awards, etc), the 2021 TASTE AWARDS in Beverly Hills will also be virtual this year.

The TASTE AWARDS in Hollywood & Beverly Hills are 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.

Viewers Choice Voting open through March 12th for Annual TASTE AWARDS

 

The 12th Annual TASTE AWARDS are proud to announce the GENERAL AWARD CATEGORY FINALISTS/NOMINEES for this awards season.

Finalists are selected primarily from work and content broadcast between October 2019 and December 2020, including public and media screenings.

 View the official list of GENERAL AWARD CATEGORY FINALISTS/NOMINEES here ⇐.

In addition, VIEWERS CHOICE VOTING is open now through March 12th for the following Awards categories:

  1. Best Comedy or Humor
  2. Best Food or Drink Radio Broadcast
  3. Best Social Media Short Video
  4. Best Home Chef in a Series
  5. Best Instructional Web Series
  6. Best Lifestyle Podcast
  7. Best Home Decor and Design Program
  8. Best Filmed at Home Episodes or Film
  9. Best Series Pilot

All Fans, follower and friends can support their top picks through the deadline at

 

www.TasteRio.com

Photography Category Finalists Announced for 12th TASTE AWARDS