Annabel Karmel
| Annabel Karmel MBE | |
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Karmel in 2013 | |
| Born | 10 May 1957[1] |
| Occupation | Chef |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Cookery |
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Annabel Jane Elizabeth Karmel MBE is the author of books on nutrition and cooking for babies, children and families.
Background
Prior to her career in infant nutrition Karmel was a talented musician.[2] Her first book was The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner, published in 1991.[3] It was endorsed by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the UK’s leading children’s hospital. Karmel has since published 37 books[3] on feeding babies, toddlers and families as well as eating in pregnancy and books on cooking with children.
Newspapers and magazines
Karmel writes regularly for national newspapers and also contributes to Practical Parenting & Pregnancy, Prima Baby, BBC Good Food, Baby London, Surrey, Hampshire and Tesco's Baby Club. She appears frequently on radio and television, and completed a series on the Richard & Judy Show, as the Foodie Godmother where she travelled around the country solving the problems of fussy eaters. She also filmed a 10 part series with Sky Active called Mummy That's Yummy. In 2011 Karmel aired her TV show Annabel's Kitchen, commissioned for CITV, with major sponsors being Fairy Liquid and Procter and Gamble.
Karmel's iPhone app Annabel's Essential Guide to Feeding your Baby and Toddler features 120 recipes and episodes from TV series Annabel's Kitchen. Karmel also works with NUK making a range of feeding equipment for making baby food. These are available in the UK and US.
Food
Karmel has a popular range of food products for toddlers and babies. In 2007, Karmel launched a range of chilled ready meals for toddlers, she also has a range of ambient and organic sauces and pastas as well as teaming up with Disney to make a range of healthy snacks. Her food products are stocked in all major UK supermarkets. Karmel also has her menus in some of the largest restaurant chains; leisure parks and nurseries in the UK, serving up more than one million children's meals each year.
Karmel is a patron for the charity Julia's House, a hospice dedicated to children with life limiting conditions. She is also working with closely with CLIC Sargent in 2013 on 'The Great Mums Get Together' campaign.
Awards
Karmel was awarded an MBE in June 2006 in the Queen's Birthday Honours for her work in the field of child nutrition. In 2009, Karmel won the LIfetime Achievement Award at the Mother and Baby Awards.[3]
Bibliography
- Karmel, Annabel (6 January 2011). My Kitchen Table - Annabel Karmel: 100 Family Meals. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-194053-9.
- Karmel, Annabel (7 May 2009). Annabel Karmel's Complete Family Meal Planner. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-193219-0.
- Karmel, Annabel (5 March 2009). Top 100 Finger Foods. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-192507-9.
- Karmel, Annabel (24 January 2008). Annabel Karmel's New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner - 4th Edition. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-192485-0.
- Karmel, Annabel (23 August 2007). Fussy Eaters. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-192284-9.
- Karmel, Annabel (9 March 2006). After School Meal Planner. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-190500-2.
- Karmel, Annabel (1 September 2005). Top 100 Baby Purees. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-190499-9.
- Karmel, Annabel (7 April 2005). Annabel Karmel's Favourite Family Recipes. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-190496-8.
- Karmel, Annabel (1 October 2007). New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner - Mothercare exclusive. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-192315-0.
References
- ↑ "Annabel Jane Elizabeth KARMEL".
- ↑ "How I make it work: Annabel Karmel". The Sunday Times. 28 August 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- 1 2 3 Shiva Kumar Thekkepat (23 April 2014). "Annabel Karmel on how she turned to cooking". Friday Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
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