Career
She is often named as de moeder van de Nederlandse gastronomie (English: The mother of the Dutch gastronomy). She has written about a hundred cooking books and countless articles in magazines, like Margriet and Avenue. In her early years as a journalist, "culinary journalism" was something new in the Netherlands.
In the 1960s Wina Born became very influential as a culinary journalist.
Through her writings she learned the ordinary man and woman to look beyond the classic Dutch kitchen style and look at foreign kitchens. She also taught them that eating out is a nice type of recreation and not necessarely expensive.
Another effect was that cooks and chefs lost their anonymous place in the kitchen and became more well known or even celebrities.
