Annabel Karmel

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Annabel Karmel MBE
Karmel in 2013
Karmel in 2013
Born (1957-05-10) 10 May 1957 (age 66)
OccupationChef
NationalityBritish
GenreCookery
Website
www.annabelkarmel.com

Annabel Jane Elizabeth Karmel MBE (born 10 May 1957) is the author of books on nutrition and cooking for babies, children and families.

Early life

Annabel Karmel was born on 10 May 1957. [1]

Prior to her career in infant nutrition she was a talented musician,[2] under the name Annabel Etkind.[3]

Her first book was The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner, published in 1991.[4] Karmel has since published 37 books[4] 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, Surrey, Hampshire and Tesco's Baby Club. She appears frequently on radio and television, and completed a series on the

Procter and Gamble.[citation needed
]

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.[citation needed]

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 worked closely with CLIC Sargent's 'The Great Mums Get Together' campaign in 2013.

Awards

Karmel was awarded an

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.[4]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Annabel Jane Elizabeth Karmel".
  2. ^ "How I make it work: Annabel Karmel". The Sunday Times. 28 August 2011. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  3. ^ "Annabel Etkind". Discogs.
  4. ^ a b c Shiva Kumar Thekkepat (23 April 2014). "Annabel Karmel on how she turned to cooking". Friday Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2014.

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