8 Taste Award Nominations for JaneUnChained’s Vegan Cooking Show!
JaneUnChained’s Vegan Cooking Show Garners 8 Taste Award Nominations
A vegan cooking show that shows up on actual television sets was a recurring fantasy I’d been having ever since I went vegan about 23 years ago, while working as a Los Angeles TV news anchor based out of Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Soon after making the switch, I ran into a neighbor in Venice, California, who just happened to be a Food Network executive. I wrangled a meeting with him and pitched my heart out. A vegan cooking show is an idea whose time has come, I exclaimed excitedly. He seemed even more excited to get me out of his office.
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]The Breakthrough Moment that Turned My Fantasy into Reality
Flash forward to 2019. A dear friend, the amazing actress Gianna Simone, introduced me to a charming Irishman named Eamonn McCrystal, a well-known former tenor and multi-Emmy-winning all-around talent and show producer with his own production company. I explained my recurring dream to him and he exclaimed, “Well, we can certainly make that happen.” And, we have!!!
We Did It!
JaneUnChained News Network, a 501 c-3- non-profit that promotes the vegan lifestyle, in collaboration with Eamonn McCrystal’s Inspired production company, has produced a vegan cooking series called New Day New Chef. And, now, it’s just gotten 8 Taste Award nominations.
The Taste Awards are the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food
What Are the Taste Awards?
The Taste Awards are the premier awards celebrating the year’s best in Food, Fashion, and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, in Streaming.
Click here to Vote for Our People’s Choice Nominations! Scroll to the bottom. It’s the final 2 categories!
Best Filmed at Home Episodes or Film. Vote for New Day New Chef Support + Feed
Best Series Pilot. Vote for New Day New Chef
The New Day New Chef Blender Dance Becomes A Thing!
Just one of the amazing moments on New Day New Chef, streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video.
For Season One of New Day New Chef, we brought in a diverse group of incredibly talented vegans to co-host and cook in our kitchen-equipped sound stage. We had only one hard and fast rule. You must dance when you turn on the blender!!! This became a thing and soon vegans everywhere were asking one another, “Will you blender dance with me?” Above, vegan yoga master Andrew Sealy stunned and delighted us with this spontaneous display of vegan-liciousness!
New Day New Chef Season One featured JaneUnChained’s Jane Velez-Mitchell (moi) and NBA legend John Salley, Olympic medalist Dotsie Bausch, Vanderpump Rules star Billie Lee, 90210‘s Christine Elise, Annabelle Comes Home’s Katie Sarife, SpongeBob SquarePants’ Lori Alan and America’s Next Top Model‘s Katie Cleary.
New Day New Chef: Support + Feed Edition
New Day New Chef Support + Feed featured the amazing Maggie Baird. Her daughter, Billie Eilish, even does a cameo appearance.
Season Two was shot, very carefully, during COVID and featured the incredible work of Support + Feed. S+F was started by actress/vegan activist/artist Maggie Baird, who is the mother of superstars Billie Eilish and Finneas, who both make cameo appearances on our cooking show! S+F gathers donations, gives them to vegan restaurants, which then make delicious, nutritious food that S + F distributes to those most in need. Among those participating in Season Two are Downton Abbey‘s Lesley Nicol, Friday’s “Bye Felicia” Angela Means-Kaaya, supermodel Joanna Krupa, Dynasty‘s Elaine Hendrix, CSI‘s Jorja Fox, Lost‘s Emilie de Ravin, and American Idol announcer Mark Thompson.
Congrats to all on the Taste Award nominations. Also, none of this could have been pulled off without the amazing dedication of JaneUnChained’s wonderful, volunteer staff!! Again, if you like our show, please click here to vote for us in the two People’s Choice Categories, the last two categories at the very bottom of the list! The complete list of our nominations is below. And, consider a donation to our non-profit.
GENERAL CATEGORY TASTE AWARD NOMINEES
Best Reality Series
Cup of Joe
Family Style, Season 2
I’ll Have What You’re Having
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
The Wiseguy Kitchen – The Historic Kapok Tree
What’s On the Menu with Michelle Ullmann, La Baguette De Normandy
Whats On The Menu With Michelle Ullmann, Pierogies Factory
Best Green or Organic Program, Series or Film
Fresh Up Your Life
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
Catherine’s Farmhouse Kitchen: Quarantine Edition
Chrissy’s Court
Flavor of Poland
Lens of Culture
Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini
New Day New Chef
Selena + Chef
The Worlds Oldest Restaurant: 300 Year Old Sobrino de Botín
Valcooks Kitchen
Wines To Find Podcast
Best Health & Fitness Program, Film or Documentary
Eick on a Hike: Best Day Hikes in Lassen Volcanic National Park
Iron Sharpens Iron
New Day New Chef
New Day New Chef: Support and Feed Edition
The Art of Natural Healing
VIEWERS CHOICE TASTE AWARD NOMINEES
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
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
Wolf it Down
Winners will be announced in late April.
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
What's Your Reaction?
Congratulations, Jane – and thank you!
New Day New Chef is a gift to us all – a ray of rightness and hope and joy when we need it the most.
You’ve shown us the power of a pure heart holding a high vision until it became real – complete with beauty and blender-dancing!
You deserve every award you and your team receive. I celebrate with you.
Dr. Michael Klaper