Warm Bread and Honey Cake by Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra

Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra has a multicultural background--in her own words she is a convent-attending Guyanese Hindu of Indian ancestry, who was educated in North America and Europe and subsequently married into a European Jewish family. A food historian and freelance translator, she is the author of Windmills in my Oven on Dutch baking. In 2000, she received the Sophie Coe Award for Food History, presented by the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. She now lives in the Netherlands.