New Orleans-based 14-year-old Kid Chef Eliana (Eliana de Las Casas), award-winning chef, cookbook author, and radio show host, is a Taste Award winner in the Best Kids Program category for her role as host of "Cool Kids Cook," her weekly web radio show on the VoiceAmerica Kids network. The TASTE AWARDS are the highest awards for the Lifestyle Entertainment Industry. They are the premier broadcast awards show celebrating the year's best achievements in Food, Fashion, Home, and Lifestyle programs on Television, in Film, Online, and on Radio. Her award was given at a red carpet event at Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California on January 15, 2014. Although Kid Chef Eliana could not attend the awards ceremony, a representative accepted the award on her behalf.