9th Annual TASTE AWARDS recognizes The Edgy Veg with Award for Best Home Chef in a Series

Rising star and vegan chef honored for YouTube series making ‘Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes’

LOS ANGELES, April 12 – The Edgy Veg, creator of the YouTube series, recipe blog, and cookbook of “carnivore-approved vegan recipes” announced today that they have received the award for “Best Home Chef in a Series” at the 9^th Annual TASTE AWARDS in Los Angeles, California.  The award comes just after Chef-Creator Candice Hutchings published her first book “The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes” alongside her husband and co-creator James Aita.

Each year the TASTE AWARDS celebrate the year’s best in food, fashion, and lifestyle programs on television, in film, online, and in apps, radio and podcasts. This year’s winners include Mario Batali, Rachel Ray, Jillian Michaels, Man v. Food, Simply Ming and Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party amongst others. This year’s TASTE AWARDS Red Carpet Dinner and Reception took place at Chef Casey Lane’s Viale dei Romani in the new La Peer Hotel in West Hollywood.

“We are honored and humbled to be recognized by the TASTE AWARDS and are so happy that vegan food is becoming more and more mainstream”, said Edgy Veg Chef-Creator Candice Hutchings.  “It gives us even more motivation to create tasty new vegan recipes for the world to enjoy. Our goal is to make easy vegan recipes that carnivores, vegetarians, reducitarians and vegans alike can enjoy and that remind them of the food they grew up loving.”