Author:Annabel Karmel
Writing from sound practical experience, the New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner was the result of Annabel Karmel's determination to feed her children well while coping with the demands of a professional career. The Baby and Toddler Cookbook was her bestselling follow-up containing more than 150 further ideas for simple, delicious yet healthy meals. It contains recipes for every occasion, transforming healthy foods into fun foods, recipes for biscuits and cakes, foods for weaning babies and tempting fussy eaters, and inspired ideas for children's parties. A section on junk food gives a consumer guide to good and bad children's food and offers some tempting homemade alternatives. It also offers practical advice on shopping and stocking the larder. Annabel Karmel's Baby and Toddler Cookbook is crammed full of exciting new ways to keep your children happy and well nourished.
Unforgettable... a remarkable book
—— NewsweekDramatic, graphic and wrenching
—— Washington PostHaunting, fast-paced
—— PeopleRarely has the subject of marriage been attended to with such intelligence, breadth of reading and insight, but also with such scrutiny and hope
—— Hisham MatarA comprehensively researched, wry examination of the many dimensions of marriage and how it has evolved
—— KirkusExploring her own marriage has given Baum a unique vantage point from which to investigate the private intricacies of other people's arrangements . . . Her ability to sit in the midst of those arguments and unpick their various strands makes her work compelling, as does her willingness to self-interrogate
—— TimesThis delightful, acrobatic book is funny, thought-provoking and rigorous at the same time. An effervescent and timely meditation on marriage
—— Darian LeaderDevorah Baum brings her literary understandings, psychoanalytic scholarship and great aplomb to the marriage conundrum. It's very funny too. Who wouldn't want to marry Devorah?
—— Susie OrbachOn Marriage is characterized by this kind of agile curiosity . . . Baum holds [marriage] up as a seduction
—— Rebecca Mead , The New YorkerBecause marriage doesn't always bring out the best in us, it makes us wonder what the best in us might be. It is part of the extraordinary wit and wisdom of Baum's remarkable book to show us what kind of romance, and experiment in living, we have wanted marriage to be
—— Adam PhillipsEverything you thought you knew about conjugal beds, secrets, feuds, confessions, triangulations and solaces will be pleasurably complicated by Devorah Baum's wryly insightful tell - all regarding the infinite perversity of marriage - including her own, mine, and probably yours
—— Laura KipnisOn Marriage is a hugely thought-provoking, witty, warm tour around every significant writer and thinker on love to have emerged since Adam and Eve. Baum is a charming guide to the wisdom of her inspiring judiciously curated cohort
—— Alain de BottonBaum looks at marriage from multiple angles, legal and political, social and narrative, its interminability and its dailiness . . . it can be funny or tragic or both. Baum’s methodology is to look at what is missing – a philosophy of marriage, a clear idea of what this dominant structure is and how it influences lives. Lovely
—— The White Review