Our Writers

JAMIE GELLER, Chief Foodie Officer, VP of Content & Marketing
ANNABEL KARMEL, Columnist for Kosher.com’s “Kids’ Kosher Cooking Corner”
BONNIE TAUB-DIX, Columnist for Kosher.com’s “Nutritious, Delicious, & Kosher”
LAURA FRANKEL, Columnist for Kosher.com’s “Kosher Cooking In Season”
FELISA BILLET, Columnist for Kosher.com's "Eating Kosher on a Budget" & "Do It Yourself Kosher"

JAMIE GELLER

Chief Foodie Officer, VP of Content & Marketing

Jamie Geller is a best selling author (Quick and Kosher Recipes from the Bride Who Knew Nothing, 2007), an internationally syndicated food and lifestyle columnist, an award-winning television producer, a motivational speaker, and the host of popular Internet cooking shows "Quick & Kosher" and "Simply Kosher."  As Chief Foodie Officer and VP of Content and Marketing for Kosher.com—a kosher food delivery site that provides informative content and serves as the ideal destination for kosher foodies—Jamie will ensure that the site offers plenty of recipes, cooking and food prep tips, as well as videos with culinary demonstrations and appearances by special guests and celebrity chefs.

Dubbed "The Kosher Rachel Ray" by the Miami Herald, Jamie has been featured in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and hundreds of print publications as well as on TV. Currently, Jamie is one of the most sought-after kosher cooks worldwide.

For the Food Network, Jamie produced "Summer Seafood" (which aired in June 2007) starring celebrity chef Tyler Florence, and which achieved instant acclaim.

Jamie also took on prestigious projects and became an award-winning senior writer and producer for HBO. There she worked on the television and theatrical marketing campaigns for the network's Groundbreaking Original series, including The Sopranos, The Wire, HBO Original Films, HBO Concerts and HBO Sports.

She also worked for CNN Entertainment News where her stories and profiles of the world's top celebrities appeared both in the U.S. and across the globe.  

On a personal note, Jamie Geller’s incredible religious journey is what inspired her to speak publicly and share the story of how she went from secular award-winning producer to Orthodox Jewish cookbook author and expert. When addressing an audience, she shares how her life transformation led her to become a successful cookbook author and how she was “The Bride Who Knew Nothing” before she grew comfortable in the kitchen. She earned rave reviews for "Quick & Kosher: Recipes from the Bride Who Knew Nothing" along with the reputation for offering brilliant recipes and solutions for those seeking quick and simple dishes that look and taste gourmet, but don’t require elaborate preparation.

“Kosher.com is about bringing kosher home, a singular destination for all things related to kosher,” says Jamie, “For me, the beauty is making it all easy and offering practical solutions. You don’t have to stress out in the kitchen. The goal is to offer simple recipes and suggestions for a kosher diet, and be able to order all the items we mention through the site for quick delivery. Just like the theme of my book, the emphasis of Kosher.com is on ‘Quick and Easy’ so the kosher experience is a pleasurable one.”

Jamie, her husband and her three children live in Monsey, New York.

ANNABEL KARMEL

Columnist for Kosher.com’s “Kids’ Kosher Cooking Corner”

Annabel Karmel, one of the world’s most successful writers on children’s food and nutrition, provides a regular column for Kosher.com titled “Kids Kosher Cooking Corner.” In this column, Karmel covers topics that she's frequently addressed throughout her career helping parents figure out how to get kids to eat healthfully ("Tips for Coping with Fussy Eaters," "Getting Your Kids Cooking in the Kitchen," "Homemade Baby Food Suggestions"). With over 4 million books sold, her cookbooks have been translated into 20 different languages.

It was the tragic death of Karmel's  daughter, Natasha, that inspired her career.  This shattering loss changed Karmel’s life forever. When her son Nicholas was ready for baby foods, he was a terribly fussy eater and she became determined to fix that.  She started experimenting with food to persuade Nicholas to eat and realized nobody had ever bothered to make baby food tasty or interesting before.

She decided to write a book with recipes for babies and toddlers. First Meals (first published as The Healthy Baby Meal Planner in 1991, and then republished as First Meals in 1999), is now the number one bestselling book on feeding young children.

Since writing her first book in 1991, Annabel Karmel has never stopped writing. As her family grew with the birth of her daughters Lara and Scarlett, she came up with more recipes, meal plans for toddlers and young children as well as their families. To date, she has written 19 books, including First Meals & More: Your Questions Answered (a follow-up to First Meals and its original, The Healthy Baby Meal Planner), Cook It Together, Top 100 Baby Purees, I Can Eat a Rainbow, The Fussy Eaters Recipe Book and Favorite Family Meals.

Karmel has become the expert in getting children, no matter how fussy, to follow a healthier diet—without them even noticing or spending hours in the kitchen.

Books are not the only string to Annabel Karmel’s bow.   A household name in the UK, she has become an authority on methods of feeding babies and toddlers, food preparation equipment, children’s food and baking and party ware.   Her recipes are so popular that UK supermarkets now stock a range of her meals.   Her healthy meals are also served in all of the leading theme parks in the UK, the largest group of nurseries, and a chain of family based holiday parks.

Karmel travels frequently to the US and has appeared on many TV programs including the Today Show, Regis and Kelly, Martha Stewart Living Radio, The View, ABC Eyewitness News, and CBS Early Show. She has also written for national US newspapers and magazines including Child Magazine, Kaboose, Family.com, American Baby, Working Mother, Quick & Simple and Parents.

In June 2006, Karmel was appointed a Member of the Order British Empire (MBE) and honored by Queen Elizabeth II for her outstanding work in the field of child nutrition.

Her popular website www.annabelkarmel.com is the number one online destination for child nutrition featuring advice, delicious recipes and social networking.    She has also launched the most comprehensive and informative online TV channel on family nutrition, with recipe videos, Top Tips and interviews with leading experts at www.annabelkarmel.tv. Her email address is Annabel@AnnabelKarmel.com.

BONNIE TAUB-DIX, MA, RD, CDN

Columnist for Kosher.com’s “Nutritious, Delicious, & Kosher:
Tips for Healthy Kosher Living & Eating”

Bonnie Taub-Dix authors Kosher.com’s “Nutritious, Delicious and Kosher: Tips for Healthy Kosher Living and Eating,” providing nutritional insight to site visitors/users. She is a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association and Director and Owner of BTD Nutrition Consultants with offices on Long Island and in New York City. She is also a specialist in behavior and lifestyle modification, nutritional psychotherapy, obesity and weight management.

Taub-Dix is a regular guest on national television, radio programs and in the press, providing practical advice on healthy living to publications such as The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and WebMD and shows including CNN, CBS Early Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, FOX 5 News, and The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet.  She has the ability to intelligently cut through the often-conflicting medical studies and the ever-shifting trends in dieting.

She has worked with The Discovery Channel and Lifetime TV as an on-air consultant for several nationally broadcast shows. As a consultant to the Cartoon Network, she collaborated on designing a program for the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regarding food labeling for children. 

As a liaison between industry and the public, she holds a position on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Family Circle Magazine and Environmental Nutrition Newsletter. In 2003, she was named “Outstanding Nutrition Entrepreneur of the Year” by the American Dietetic Association, and the following year she received the New York State Dietetic Association’s Media Excellence Award.

Having served as President of BTD Nutrition Consultants for 3 decades, Taub-Dix counsels individuals (including many celebrities) and groups. She is an advisor to major corporations, law firms and fitness clubs, setting up wellness programs and conducting seminars. With a great passion for and understanding of food science, she displays her creativity in modifying recipes and designing menus for restaurants and is the co-author of Kosher By Design Lightens Up (Artscroll 2008), a book that blends the science of nutrition and tradition of home cooking.

Taub-Dix is a prolific writer on issues related to nutrition for both popular and professional publications. She writes a weekly blog for USA Today and is a regular contributor for MSNBC.com. For two and a half years, she wrote a column called “Fitness Prescription” for Newsday, and her articles and quotes have also appeared in Life, Health, Vogue, Shape, Fitness, Reader’s Digest, Weight Watcher’s, Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food, Ladies’ Home Journal, Prevention, Women’s Day, and Men’s Health, just to name a few. She was a consultant to, and was quoted in, books such as Nutrition for Dummies, Cholesterol for Dummies, and The Only 127 Things you Need, and she has written chapters for textbooks including Weight Management: A Practical Guide (American Dietetic Association), The Entrepreneurial Nutritionist (Helm Press), and Nutrition Concerns of Women (CRC Press).

Taub-Dix has played a prominent role in health-related organizations, serving as a board or committee member for the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association, the Governor’s Council on Osteoporosis, the North American Ensure Health Care Professionals Advisory Board, and the Bean Expert Advisory Network. Taub-Dix received her BS in Clinical and Community Dietetics from Downstate Medical Center and her MA in Nutrition from New York University. She lives on Long Island with her husband and three sons. She is currently writing a book to help consumers decipher food labels.

Bonnie Taub-Dix’s web site is www.bonnietaubdix.com and her email address is btdnutrition@gmail.com.

LAURA FRANKEL

Columnist for Kosher.com’s “Kosher Cooking In Season”

Laura Frankel is the former chef and founder of the Shallots restaurants. Frankel has training and extensive experience in both savory and pastry kitchens. After Frankel had a family and began maintaining a kosher home she found that there was nowhere in Chicago serving the quality of food that she knew she could offer. She opened her first restaurant in 1999 offering kosher fine dining with a produce-driven menu. Frankel opened Shallots NY in 2000 in Mid-town Manhattan.

Frankel has run restaurants in Chicago and New York and has taught cooking classes across the country.  She is the author of Jewish Cooking for All Seasons and Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes (August 2009), John Wiley and Sons publishers. An avid farmer’s market and Green market supporter, Frankel gives demos, teaches classes using market produce and gives shopping tours to local groups in Chicago at the famed Green City Market.

Frankel is the Executive Chef at the Wolfgang Puck Kosher Catering at the Spertus Institute for Jewish studies in Chicago Her website is www.Lauraskosher.com Before committing herself to her culinary passion, she played both alto and baritone saxophones. She taught and played professionally. Frankel has 3 children. Zachary-21, Ari-18 and Jonah-14 who all love to cook and eat great food!

FELISA BILLET

Columnist for Kosher.com's "Eating Kosher on a Budget" & "Do It Yourself Kosher"

Felisa Billet is a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines, including USA Today, Jewish Action, American Jewish Spirit, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Pregnancy, and My Midwest. Felisa is at work on a cookbook, The DIY Kitchen, which explains how to make supermarket staples from the comfort of home. She is a mom of three kids and lives in South Florida.