The Baby and Toddler Cookbook: Fresh, Homemade Foods for a Healthy Start
Karen Ansel, MS, RD, is a registered dietitian and freelance writer specializing in health, wellness, food, and nutrition. Her work has been published in national women’s heath magazines such asFamily Circle, Woman’s Day, Cooking Light, Fitness, Prevention, Shape, Weight Watchers, Natural HealthandMarie Claire. Karen is theNew York Citymedia representative for the New York State Dietetic Association and a contributing editor forWoman’s Daymagazine. She received her B.A. fromDukeUniversityand her Master’s in clinical nutrition fromNew YorkUniversity. Karen lives inLong Island,New York, with her husband and two children.Charity Ferreira is a food writer, recipe developer, and former pastry chef whose work has appeard inGourmet, Cooking Light, Sunset, andBon Appetit, as well as the food section of theLos Angeles Times. A graduate of theCaliforniaCulinaryAcademy, she turned her lifelong interest in food and nutrition to baby and toddler cuisine when her son and twin nieces were born. She is the author or co-author of five cookbooks includingWilliams-Sonoma Essentials of Mediterranean.She and her family live in the San Francisco Bay Area.Thayer Allyson Gowdy is a San Francisco–based photographer who has been featured in numerous magazines, includingMartha Stewart Living, Real Simple, InStyle Home, andParents, and in such books asHealthy BabyandPattern Prints.