Food and nutrition
Rose Elliot is an internationally renowned authority on vegetarian cooking. A passionate vegetarian since she was a child, Rose published her first book, Simply Delicious, in 1967. Since then Rose has written over 50 cookery books, which have sold all round the world and opened the eyes of thousands of people to the health-giving benefits of vegetarian and vegan lifestyles. Rose has also contributed to many magazines and newspapers, has appeared on numerous radio and television shows and demonstrates at cookery shows all over the UK. Since writing Fast, Fresh and Fabulous for BBC Books, she has written 2 books for Octopus and, most recently, The Vegetarian Low-Carb Diet and accompanying cookbook for Piatkus. She has a weekly column in the Guardian, in the Saturday Weekend section, and writes for a new monthly magazine called Lifescape.
In 2001 Topsy Fogg and Janice Fisher launched Truuuly Scrumptious Organic Baby Food Ltd. Certified by the Soil Association the company is dedicated to producing a range of delicious and nutritious baby food. The business started by supplying a few local shops and now supplies over 60 outlets as well as offering home delivery nationwide. Before founding Truuuly Scrumptious, Topsy worked as a Norland Nanny for over 12 years and Janice worked for a food manufacturer developing new products before becoming a buyer for supermarkets.
Charlotte Hume
Charlotte Hume is a freelance television correspondent and mother of two children. After another dinner table drama involving her seven year old son and peas, Charlotte started a blog called the Great Big Vegetable Challenge and opened it to 'all of you parents out there who have tried and succeeded to introduce your offspring to the joys of carrots, peas, lettuce, spinach, asparagus, beetroot, green beans - in fact any vegetable. Any idea gratefully received.'
Her strategy was going to introduce her son to the entire alphabet of vegetables cooked in a variety of original and tempting ways and post the results - successes and failures on her blog.
To find out more, visit http://greatbigvegchallenge.blogspot.com.
Robyn Martin runs the Test Kitchen for New Zealand's most read woman's magazine, Woman's Weekly.
Annabel Karmel is a busy working mother with three children. She has written eight previous titles including the bestselling SuperFoods for Babies and Toddlers and Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner. She is a celebrity chef on BBCi, the BBC website and has contributed to the Mothercare.com site. She also writes for national newspapers and magazines including a regular column in Prima Magazine and appears frequently on radio and TV as the UK’s expert on children’s nutritional issues. She is the cookery writer for Practical Parenting magazine, and is the new children’s food expert on Channel 4’s Richard and Judy show.
To find out more visit www.annabelkarmel.co.uk.
Paul Sacher BSC (Med) Hons SRD is a highly qualified and experienced Specialist Paediatric Dietitian at the Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He is a childhood obesity researcher and is currently researching the MEND (mind, exercise nutrition and diet) programme, a childhood obesity treatment, designed to improve health and fitness for the whole family. Paul is regularly invited to speak both nationally and internationally at scientific conferences and apart from two previous books on childhood nutrition, has also published his research in scientific journals. Paul has studied and worked on three different continents, where he has developed his unique, integrated clinical style.
