Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra has a multi-cultural background - in her own words "a convent-attending Guyanese Hindu of Indianancestry, who was educated in North America and Europe and subsequently married into a European Jewish family". A food historian and freelance translator, she has already authored a book on Dutch baking - 'Windmills in my Oven' (Prospect Books, 2002). In 2000, she received the Sophie Coe award for food history, presented by the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. She lives in the Netherlands.