Wina Born

Wina Born-Meijer (Sliedrecht, 21 August 1920 – Amsterdam, 6 August 2001) was a Dutch journalist. She is often named as de moeder van de Nederlandse gastronomie (English: The mother of the Dutch gastronomy). She has written about a hundred cookbooks and countless articles in magazines, like Margriet and Avenue.

Work In 1949, Wina Born published her first articles in the newly founded monthly Wijn (English: Wine). In the sober years after the Second World War gastronomy and wine were virtually unknown in the Netherlands. Due to her weekly recipe-column in the magazine Margriet, with Libelle one of the major women magazines in the Netherlands, Born gained notoriety. She could also broaden the culinary horizon of the ordinary housewife, the main readers of the magazine.

In a later stage, Wina Born started writing articles about foreign kitchen styles and producing restaurant-reviews.

Between 1962 and 2000, Born wrote and translated more than a hundred books about wine and cooking. She also wrote articles for several newspapers, like Het Parool, and magazines. Another effect was that cooks and chefs lost their anonymous place in the kitchen and became more well known or even celebrities. 1975: Chevalier dans l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole 2008: Medaille D’Argent du Tourisme Français Originally the price was handed out by the Dutch "Stichting Vakopleiding Horeca"