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.
2022 Nominee, Winners, Honorees and Hall of Fame Inductees will have their honors celebrated on the star-studded televised awards show broadcast in May and June on selected public television stations across the United States.
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, HBO Max, Entertainment Studios’ Recipe.TV, NETA, Myx TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tastemade, the Africa Channel, Roku, and more.
Now in its 13th year, the annual TASTE AWARDS television broadcast across the United States will be in May and June 2022, and you are requested to join.
This star-studded television special will be broadcast exclusively on select public television stations nationwide. Celebrity award presenters for this broadcast include Tyler Florence, Joanne Weir, Darley Newman, Chef Jernard Wells, Michelle Harris, Kim Estes, Lorna Maseko, Nikki Dinki, Andrea Feczko, Danielle Nottingham, Kitchen Chat, Chef JJ Johnson, and more.
The 13th Annual TASTE AWARDS ceremony has been produced in a pre-recorded format for broadcast in May and June 2022 (check your local listings for May and June dates and times) and also viewable on the PBS Video app.
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 decades of contributions to culinary, television, and film talent as well as a fierce and constant determination to find and spotlight new flavors, is celebrity chef and author Julia Child (The French Chef).
All of the following have been selected by the TASTE AWARDS Committee to be honored with Special Achievement Honoree Awards in the listed categories.
BREAKOUT FOODIES OF THE YEAR
Sweet Heat with Rick Martinez (Food52), Bake It Up a Notch with Erin McDowell (Food52), Pizza-Making Class on Goldbelly Live
BREAKOUT STORYTELLERS OF THE YEAR
86ED, The Food that Built America: “Soup of the Century” (History)
OUTSTANDING PASSION
STYLEMAKER AWARD
Lost Time
SPOTLIGHT AWARD
To Dine For with Kate Sullivan
ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE NEWS AWARD
OUTSTANDING NATURE OR SCIENCE PROGRAM, FILM, OR DOCUMENTARY AWARD
The Green Wave – Tahiti
BEST OF CANADA
BEST OF AFRICA
Item 13: An African Foods Podcast
BEST OF LATIN/SOUTH AMERICA
GENERAL CATEGORY TASTE AWARDS FINALIST NOMINEES & WINNERS
The Academy of Media Tastemakers has selected the following nominees and winners in each awards category.
Best Chef in a Series
AZ Cooks Live
Bake It Up a Notch with Erin McDowell (Food52)
Cooks Thyme with Chef Tobias Cooks
G. Garvin Live!
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
Just Eats with Chef JJ
Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana
Paris Bistro Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams
Simply Ming: Season 18 – WINNER
A Taste of Key West
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
Cook’s Country – WINNER
Eatup! New York
Fast Foodies
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted
Just Eats with Chef JJ
Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana
New Soul Kitchen Remix
Paris Bistro Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams
Selena + Chef Season 2
Tastes Like Home Series Four and Five
Best Food Program – Online and Streaming
AZ Cooks Live
Bake It Up a Notch with Erin McDowell (Food52)
Bravo’s Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen
Chef Jason Bunin Cooking Show
Cutting the Curd
Feast.Network
Gear Heads — America’s Test Kitchen
Let’s Make Dessert — America’s Test Kitchen
Meat and Three
Sweet Heat with Rick Martinez (Food52)
The Butter Book
The Extra Mile
The Wild Harvest – WINNER
What’s Eating Dan? — America’s Test Kitchen, Dan Souza – WINNER
Best Food Travel Series
A Parisian Food Affair with Julie Neis
A Queen In The Kitchen-Estate Italiana
A Taste of Key West
Australia’s Food Bowl with Stefano de Pieri
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
French Country Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted – WINNER
Lidia Celebrates America: A Salute to First Responders
Maria’s Portuguese Table , 8 part Series
Tastes Like Home Series Four And Five
The Extra Mile
To Dine For with Kate Sullivan
Weekends with Yankee
Best Reality Series
Backyard Bar Wars
Culture Kitchen – WINNER
Fast Foodies
G. Garvin Live!
Just Eats with Chef JJ
New Soul Kitchen Remix
Selena + Chef Season 2
Simply Ming: Season 18 – WINNER
The TODAY SHOW: Joy’s Superfood Friday
What’s Eating Dan? — America’s Test Kitchen, Dan Souza
The Event
Best Drink or Beverage Program
Back Bar
Backyard Bar Wars
Dads Drinking Bourbon
Feast.Network
Muddled Up!
Proof
The 3 Julias on 30A Television
The Grape Nation
The Speakeasy
Wine First – WINNER
Wine Soundtrack
Best Branded Program, Native Content, Video, or Advertisement: Presented by R&B Cellars
Clovia – Women’s Day
Get Away for a Day with Allyshia Renay!
Nadia Mejia’s (2016 Miss USA Runner-Up) AI Driven Interactive Food Film
Non So Dove, Ma Insieme
The Superiore of Prosecco in Venice – WINNER
Best Green or Organic Program, Series or Film
Building Tomorrow
French Country Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams
New Day New Chef : LIVE
Paris Bistro Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams
The Green Wave – Tahiti
The Soul of A Farmer – WINNER
Best New Series
Backyard Bar Wars
Counterjam
Culture Kitchen – WINNER
Fast Foodies
Let’s Make Dessert — America’s Test Kitchen
The Sandwich Universe
Best Single Topic Series: Presented by Gowan’s Cider
All in the Industry
Back Bar – WINNER
Cutting the Curd
Dads Drinking Bourbon
Extreme Cuisine – Sea Urchin
Fields
Let’s Make Dessert — America’s Test Kitchen
Pizza Quest
Sip Sip Hooray! wine podcast
The Event
The Sandwich Universe
The Speakeasy
The Wild Harvest – WINNER
Best Series Pilot
Backyard Bar Wars
Cooking in Mexican from A To Z
Dear Mama
Fast Foodies – WINNER
Fields
Muddled Up!
One BIG Recipe
Pizza Quest
The SloFunkPump Show
Best Home Chef in a Series
Eat, Drink, and Handle Your Business
Let’s Make Food From Food with Michelle Ullmann
Living By Design
Selena + Chef Season 2 – WINNER
The 3 Julias on 30A Television
The Trailer Park Cooking Show With Jolene Sugarbaker
Valcooks Kitchen
Best Food or Drink Podcast
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Counterjam
Item 13: An African Foods Podcast
The Black Kitchen Initiative by Heinz
The Sandwich Universe
The Speakeasy – WINNER
Best Travel Program
A Parisian Food Affair with Julie Neis
A Pilgrimage to Tibet
Dear Mama
Get Away for a Day with Allyshia Renay!
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted – WINNER
Great Getaways: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Passion Italy
SOS
Tastes Like Home
Travels with Darley
Best City or Regional Program
Amah Knows Best
Australia’s Food Bowl with Stefano de Pieri
Back At The Table
Eatup! New York
Get Away for a Day with Allyshia Renay!
Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places – WINNER
Wine Road Podcast
Best Ethnic Lifestyle Series, Program or Film
54 Years Late
A Queen In The Kitchen-Estate Italiana
CombiNation Plates
Culture Kitchen – WINNER
Friday Night Vibes
G. Garvin Live!
Just Eats with Chef JJ
New Soul Kitchen Remix
The Black Kitchen Initiative by Heinz – WINNER
Valcooks Kitchen
Best International Program: Presented by Villa Premiere Boutique Hotel (Puerto Vallarta)
Amah Knows Best
Australia’s Food Bowl with Stefano de Pieri
Extreme Cuisine – Sea Urchin
French Country Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams
Nordic by Nature – Michelin Stars
Passion Italy
Sopitas de mi Ecuador
Tastes Like Home – WINNER
The Green Wave – Tahiti
Best Multi Camera Production
Backyard Bar Wars
Fast Foodies – WINNER
French Country Cooking with Edward Delling-Williams: Foraging By The Sea
Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana
Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places
Tastes Like Home – WINNER
Best Foreign Language Program, Series or Film
A Queen In The Kitchen-Estate Italiana
Nordic by Nature – Michelin Stars – WINNER
Sopitas de mi Ecuador
Wine Soundtrack
