Pratima Nand

Patrima is a well known community leader who, in 2010, was awarded the New Zealander of the Year Local Hero Award. The author of several successful cookbooks, Patrima also produced and hosted New Zealand’s first interactive DVD on Indian cooking and presented Butter Chicken and Beyond, a cooking show for Triangle Television. Pratima wears many hats aside from being an author, chef and television presenter; she is a Justice of the Peace, marriage and civil union celebrant, radio broadcaster, community worker, child sponsor, health worker, singer, TV Producer, philanthropist, interpreter and translator.