James Beard News

Burger lovers, rejoice-the James Beard Foundation will host the winners of the 2018 Blended Burger Project on Thursday, October 18. The project challenged chefs to blend mushrooms with meat to create a more delicious, nutritious, and environmentally sustainable blended burger.

“BASIC VERSUS BALLER: TRAVEL AT ANY COST” is the first long form original show from Tastemade that  will be launching exclusively on TastemadeTV, the company's new 24-hour linear channel on YouTubeTV.  The show follows the Vagabrothers around the globe in 10 episodes, with episode 1 shot in Hong Kong, China, premiering on October 26, 2018.  Following the premiere, it will air weekly on Thursdays through early January 2019 and will be supported by over 100 social assets to be distributed on Tastemade's global social channels.

Whet your appetite! ABC announced today that world-renowned chefs, authors, restaurateurs and television personalities Cat Cora and Graham Elliot will be serving up some knowledge as judges on the upcoming culinary competition series “Family Food Fight,” based on Australia's hit format.

“Modified,” a new award-winning documentary that tells the story of a very personal mother-daughter investigative journey into the complex world of genetically modified foods (GMOs), will be screening in Vermont in Middlebury and Montpelier in mid October during Food Week of Action. It will also be shown in Burlington at this year's Vermont International Film Festival.

Today, SoulPancake, the Participant Media (Spotlight, The Help) owned content studio and production company originally founded by Rainn Wilson (The Office, The Meg), announced a multi-platform content partnership with Tastemade, a modern media brand inspiring the taste of a generation, and creator of such shows as Struggle Meals, Tiny Kitchen, and The Pitch.

Netflix has released the trailer for Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an original documentary series, which launches globally on October 11th. Watch the trailer below!

Performance Space New York announces First Mondays: Readings of New Works in Progress, organized by author Sarah Schulman (Maggie Terry, 2018; Conflict is not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair, 2016). On the first Monday of most months between October 2018 and May 2019, the series will present audiences with an opportunity to gather and hear in-progress works from writers leading the literary avant-garde. First Mondays exemplifies the artistic community-building power in Performance Space New York's appointment of five Associate Artists. Today, the organization announces Sarah Schulman, Emily Johnson, Gillian Walsh, Sarah Ortmeyer, and Angela Dimayuga as the Associate Artists who will actively contribute to programming and administrative decision making in the years to come-honoring Performance Space New York's roots as a space run by the very people experimenting within it.

Whether it's the slurp of a honey banana smoothie or the crackle of fresh bacon, breakfast is what gets many of us out of bed in the morning. A new survey conducted by the National Honey Board highlights how the U.S. does breakfast, just in time for both National Honey Month and Better Breakfast Month in September. 1

Tourism in Denver has grown rapidly over the last five years reaching over 31 million visitors in 2017. One of the top reasons travelers choose the Mile High City is culinary tourism. Denver Food Tours Founder Lindsay Prime is at the forefront of the growing food community and allows travelers to experience her city like a local.

Sun Basket, the leading healthy meal kit service in the United States, today announced their fastest recipes yet, with new Super Speedy Meals, part of their Quick & Easy Meal Plan.

The Great American Turkey Co. (GATC) announced today that it is its suite of craft turkey-based products exclusively in all 161 locations of The Fresh Market Inc. GATC products were created to provide a new source of epically delicious, awesomely easy and honestly good protein to consumers increasingly seeking healthy, sustainable food options that taste great.

11th Annual Neustadt JAAMM Festival, a celebration of Jewish arts, authors, movies and music, will be presented at Denver's Mizel Arts and Culture Center at the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center starting October 4th and running through November 18th, 2018. Tickets for the festival will go on sale September 4th online at www.jccdenver.org/jaamm and at the box office at 303-316-6360, located at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center at 350 S. Dahlia Street in Denver.??

On September 2nd, The Inn at Little Washington will host INNSTOCK, a food & music festival and the second of three events in 2018 celebrating Patrick O'Connell's first 40 years as Chef and Proprietor of the Michelin-starred restaurant and iconic inn. Each of the 40 th anniversary events are a celebration of relationships and INNSTOCK is no exception. This culinary family reunion will feature over 20 of The Inn's alumni sous chefs who are returning to the mothership to prepare their finest offerings.

Netflix, the world's leading entertainment service, today unveiled four new unscripted original series and one original special slated to debut later this year. The announcement was made at the Edinburgh TV Festival by Brandon Riegg, VP of Unscripted Originals and Acquisitions for Netflix, where he outlined his vision for unscripted programming as his portfolio increases.

American Dream, the future of retail and entertainment, is excited to announce the world's first MUNCHIES, the food and culture site from VICE. With over 38,000 square feet and 18 vendors, the MUNCHIES Food Hall will be a platform for creative and diverse culinary talent, selected with MUNCHIES signature youth-driven perspective.

VICELAND, the Emmy-winning youth lifestyle and entertainment network from VICE Media and A+E Networks, is renewing two series as well as rebooting another popular show for premieres in early 2019.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County (@arshtcenter) is pleased to announce event details for ARTSLAUNCH2018 (#ArtsLaunch2018), a FREE annual celebration to kick off South Florida's arts season and celebrate the Center's official box office opening, on September 8, 2018*.