AWARDS JUDGING

TASTE AWARDS Finalists are selected from nomination submissions by the ACADEMY OF MEDIA TASTEMAKERS, a diverse and respected association of food & wine editors, writers and bloggers, chefs, fashion journalists, television producers and stations, online video platforms, mobile device providers, retail and technology enterprises, and others.

There is also a set of Viewer's Choice Awards, selected online by the general public. Winners of the TASTE AWARDS (aka the TASTY Awards) receive their honors in January 12th, 2013 at a Red Carpet Hollywood celebration in Los Angeles.

Finalists are selected from all qualified nominees based on their level of excellence in the categories in which they have been nominated. Six Finalists are selected for each category.

See below for current names of the Academy's Judges Panel.

Judges are not excluded from making nominations, and may be past nominees and finalists.

AWARDS TIMELINE
- Early Bird Nomination Submission: June 20 - July 16, 2012
- Regular Nomination Submission: July 17, 2012
- Nomination Submissions Close; August 24, 2012
- First Round Voting: September 2012
- Final Round Voting: October 2012
- Finalists announced: November 2012
- Award Winners announced: December 2012
- TASTE AWARDS Red Carpet Hollywood Gala: January 2013

AWARDS JUDGES INCLUDE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS: (sample listing):

3 Wine Guys, Inc. 944 MAGAZINE A Matter of Taste A Taste of New York About.com Adventure TV Alicia Arter ALL ABOUT EAT Alli411 America One Television / One World Sports Art and Entertain Me Art of Eating In Art of the Drink TV Art of the Table Asian Food & Travel Ate Consulting Average Betty Barfly Basil MAGAZINE Bay Area News Group BeenThereAteThat Bel-Air MAGAZINE Beverly Hills Report BeverlyHillsPeople.com Bionic Bites Bite Me TV Blogcritics.org Bloomingdale's Bon Appetit MAGAZINE Bonnie Carroll's Life Bites News Bradmer Foods, LLC Brew Media Relations Brightcove Bubblicous Bunrab.com Business Woman, LLC Cakespy.com California Naturals Candy Addict Candy Industry MAGAZINE Candy Yum Yum! ChannelMeter.com Charles Communications Associates Chez Cherie Cooking School Chicagoist and ChicagoFoodies.com Churm Media Confetti Le Chocolatier Cooking for the Clueless Cooking with Amy Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Cuisine Noir/Luna's Kitchen Magic Culinary Institute of America Cupcakes Take The Cake Daily World Dean & Deluca, St. Helena Deseret News Dessertbuzz.com Dig Lounge Dining Around, KGO-ABC Dishing Up Delights Dying for Chocolate e*starLA EAT MAGAZINE EATnLISTEN Edible Explorations Editor, Chocolate in Context Epicurean School of Culinary Arts Tea Time By Tina Feisty Foodie Flathau's Fine Foods Food & Wine Radio Network FOOD FASHIONISTA Food Network Food Rules Food Wishes Video Recipes Food, she thought. Foodbuzz Foodhoe's Foraging Forays of a Finance Foodie / FFAY Media Productions Fork & Bottle, LLC FreedoMedia Frogwater Media Frommers.com Full Picture Funstertainment Productions Gastrolust.com Gastronomnom.com Gourmet Pigs Gourmet Walks Gratitude Gourmet Harwood Podcast Network Helicon Media/SandyGreen LLC Herbivoracious.com History Channel iFW&TWA Intermezzo Magazine Involver iWineRadio.com JE Model Management Jolene Sugarbaker Company Jones Lang LaSalle

KARLETTAMONIZ.COM KFBK Radio Sacramento CA Kitchy Kitchen KJAZZ KUOW LA & OC Foodventures Ladles and Jellyspoons LAist Left Coast Catering Lick My Spoon Life of Reiley Lili's Culinary Adventures/San Francisco Professional Food Society Local Lemons / Bay Area Food Group LOFT Organic Liqueurs Los Angeles Downtown News Los Angeles Times Luce wine restaurant Luna's Kitchen Magic Marin Chef LLC Mastro Productions Melts In Your Pocket Metroblogging Seattle Michele Mandell PR Midtown Lunch Mountlake Terrace Sentinel My Burning Kitchen Napa Valley Register New York Cork Report NITTANY VALLEY PRODUCTIONS, INC. Noise 13 Design and/or Slow Food San Francisco NorthBay Biz MAGAZINE Northside SF & The Marina Times NorthWest Stir Omnivore Books One Hot Tomato Media Online Video Watch Orange County Register / I Want To Cook Orlin Media OSBRINK AGENCY Oyster Food & Culture PacificBasin Communications Pannell Quizine Catering Picklesandcake.com Plate MAGAZINE Pleasure Palate Providence Journal and Projo.com Real Dream Productions Red Carpet Bay Area RV Cooking Show Saffron Lane Sam the Cooking Guy San Francisco Professional Food Society San Gabriel Valley Newspapers Saratoga Chocolates Scripps Networks Seattle Tall Poppy Serge the Concierge Seriously Simple Enterprises, Inc. SF Dives SF Examiner, SF Classical Voice, EInsiders.com SF Station.com, Classy Eats SFBaystyle.com SFist (Gothamist) Slow Food Seattle SmallScreenScoop.com and ShesSmart.com Squid Ink & Sunday Dish Stephencooks.com Sticky, Gooey, Ceamy, Chewy Studio Baisa Styleite.com Sweet Travel Syrah Restaurants Talk of Tomatoes Tangled Noodle TasteTV Technorati Third Coast Cuisine This Week for Dinner Tiny Urban Kitchen Tripfilms V. Sheree Publishing Van Gogh Imports Variety MAGAZINE Vine Times Visual Eyez Studio, Inc. Viva Cocolat Waggener Edstrom Worldwide Wasabimon Wide Eye Television Inc. Wine For Newbies Productions, LLC Wine-Girl.net / Write Technology Winecentric Without Borders Working Class Foodies (Pyrite Productions & Next New Networks) Yahoo! Inc. Zinc Details

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