Maiken Urmet, a native of Tartu, Estonia, received her degree in Computer Graphic Design at Tartu Art College in 2002. After college she moved to Belgium with her boyfriend and that is where she first started dabbling in cooking. She found a new creative outlet and has by now published her first cookbook in Estonian that came out in the Summer of 2009 (available in bookshops). Maiken has lived in Portugal, Belgium and USA and wants to expand the Estonian diet with foreign dishes. Naturally she also enjoys her grandmother's good ol'fashioned Estonian dishes and has sworn to master those as well. At the moment she is once again back in Belgium, working on another cookbook and studying French.