Annabel Jane Elizabeth Karmel (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.
Prior to her career in infant nutrition she was a talented musician, under the name Annabel Etkind.
Her first book was ''The Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner'', published in 1991.
Karmel has since published 37 books
[ on feeding babies, toddlers and families as well as eating in pregnancy and books on cooking with children.
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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 Richard & Judy
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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
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called '' Mummy That's Yummy''. In 2011 Karmel aired her TV show ''Annabel's Kitchen'', commissioned for CITV
CITV (short for Children's ITV, also known as the CITV Channel) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive and acquisitions, every day from 6 am to 9 pm which ...
, with major sponsors being Fairy Liquid
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and Procter and Gamble
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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.
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
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...
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 MBE Mbe may refer to:
* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
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in June 2006 in the Queen's Birthday Honours
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for her work in the field of child nutrition.
In 2009, Karmel won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mother and Baby Awards.[
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Bibliography
* Karmel, Annabel (20 August 2019). ''Real Food Kids Will Love: Over 100 Simple and Delicious Recipes for Toddlers and Up''. St. Martin's Press
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*Karmel, Annabel (25 May 2017). ''Annabel Karmel's Baby-Led Weaning Recipe Book: 120 Recipes to Let Your Baby Take the Lead''. Palazzo Editions. .
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References
External links
Official site
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British food writers
Living people
1957 births
Members of the Order of the British Empire