About the Author

Dr Anne Perera is a Food and Nutrition Consultant with many years of experience working and living in countries around the world. She has co-authored Nutrition 2000 published by Longman Paul, New Zealand in 1994, for which she received the Nutrition Writer of the Year award and also Hot Potatoes & Cool Bananas published by SNP International in Singapore in 2007. She has been active in several voluntary organisations and from August 2010 is working in Tanzania on a project sponsored by Volunteer Service Abroad.