About the Author

Diana von Cranach was born in the UK and after being Cordon Bleu trained, decided that she had to find her own style of cooking. Completing a degree in Egyptology at Heidelberg University, then running her own successful interior design business, she moved to Bali to create a small but very personal resort, Puri Ganesha Villas, in 1996. In 2006 Diana began to develop her unique, 'rawfully good' interpretation of the raw or 'living' food movement that began in the late 1990s in the US. Since then, she has been a guest chef at many hotels throughout the region and will be opening the first ethno-botanical restaurant in Luang Praband, Laos.