Vanja van der Leeden

(The Netherlands, 1976) is a cookbook and culinary writer with a background as a professional chef. Her favourite themes are Indonesian, Italian and healthy. She has cooked for various restaurants in The Hague and Amsterdam. She is a columnist for Dutch TV culinary and talk shows, and can regularly be seen on the food-nerd channel Foodtube and as TV chef on a Flemish channel. Together with her husband, the food photographer Remko Kraaijeveld, she created the cookbooks Indorock (2019, which won the Golden Cookbook prize), Indostok (2020, focused on saté), Insane: gekmakend lekker en best gezond (Insane: Maddeningly Delicious and Quite Healthy, 2022) en Italopop: Italiaans, maar dan anders (Italopop: Italian, but Different, 2023).