Nominees for the 2nd Annual TASTY Awards to be Announced Nov. 9th

SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2nd Annual TASTY Awards, the premier awards show honoring the year's best in food, fashion, and home lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, and Online, will announce Nominees on Tuesday, November 9th.

The Nominee announcement will be webcast live on TastyAwards.com at 1pm (PST) at a press conference at chef Traci Des Jardins' acclaimed Jardiniere restaurant in San Francisco.

The final TASTY Award Winners will be announced on Thursday, January 13, 2011, during the Awards Show at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.  The TASTY Awards are for lifestyle programming what the Grammys are for music.

The host for the 2nd Annual TASTY Awards is Zane Lamprey (Travel Channel, HDNet), with other presenters including Tanya Holland (Cooking Channel, Food Network), Leslie Sbrocco (PBS), Nathan Lyon (Fit TV, Discovery Health, PBS, Food Network), and Bobby Bognar (History Channel), along with newcomers such as Candice Kumai (Lifetime, Bravo's Top Chef), Brian Boitano (Food Network), Daniel Green (ShopNBC), Luciene Salomone (WE tv), Amy Paffrath (E! Entertainment Television), Jeannie Mai (Style Network), Kevin Roberts (TLC), and Aida Mollenkamp (Food Network, Cooking Channel).

In other news, the Official Hotel of the TASTY Awards, the Crescent Beverly Hills, has announced special room rates for visitors to Los Angeles for the January 13th Awards Show.

In addition, PR Newswire has created a special press release package for all parties associated with the TASTY Awards such as nominees, honorees, presenters and partners, so that they can economically announce their achievements or association.  For more details on the Crescent Beverly Hills or the PR Newswire package, please go to the Partners section of www.TastyAwards.com.

A limited quantity of TASTY Awards event tickets are now available on a first come basis.  For details, go to www.TastyAwards.com

SOURCE TasteTV