Santa Barbara Iron Chef, entrepreneur and author Cat Cora was a presenter at the 2013 TasteTV Awards, the premier awards show celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, Online, and on Radio, held at The Vibiana Center in Los Angeles, where winners selected by the Academy of Media Tastemakers were honored. Bonnie Carroll, publisher of Life Bites News and Santa Barbara Editor-at-Large for SplashLA Magazine has been a member of the panel of judges who select the award winners for the past three years.

Presenters participating included Cat Cora (Bravo, Food Network), James Cunningham (Cooking Channel), Tanya Holland (Food Network), P Allen Smith (National), Chef Ashely James (Public Television, Four Seasons), and Jolene Sugarbaker (YouTube).The 4th Annual TASTE AWARDS is the premier awards show celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, Online, and on Radio.Award Winners were announced on December 4th via livestream. The awards presented at the TASTE AWARDS Red Carpet gala and reception in Los Angeles on January 17th were broadcast for later viewing.
The SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT Honoree Awards went to Andrew Zimmern [Tastemaker of the Year], Wolfgang Puck, Gordon Ramsay [Pioneer Award], Vice Munchies, Cook Taste Eat, Hungry Channel, Tasted Channel [Kikkoman Breakout Foodies of the Year], About Face: Supermodels Then and Now (HBO), Nowness.com, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo), Styled By June (VH1) [Breakout Fashionistas of the Year], The WIGS Channel [Breakout Storytellers of the Year], Marcus Samuelsson [Outstanding Vision], Fabio Viviani, Joe Ciminera [Outstanding Passion], Jiro Dreams of Sushi [Outstanding Inspiration], Nadia G [Outstanding Entertainer], Chicagolicious (Style), Shahs of Sunset (Bravo), Cooking with Dog [Guilty Addiction of the Year], Laura in the Kitchen, the Naked Wine Show, Small Screen Network [Great Taste], House of Style (MTV) [Stylemaker of the Year], “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier”, and “The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook” [Outstanding Enhanced eBook. For additional details visit www.TasteTV.com.
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.By Bonnie Carroll