Petty Pandean Elliott’s fascination for food and cookery goes back over 15 years when she began teaching modern Indonesian cooking classes for her friends and neighbours in UK. Petty participated in the BBC Masterchef competition in 2001. In Jakarta she has been hosting classes and cooking demonstrations, writing regular columns and features about food in magazines and newspapers for the past 11 years. Her first cookbook “Papaya Flower,” Manadonese Cuisine, Provincial Indonesian Food was published in 2009 and a second, Contemporary Indonesian Food in January 2012. Her new cooking book, “Jakarta Bites” is going to publish in mid 2016.
 
Petty was head contributor for Indonesia to the Miele Guide, a restaurant guide in Asia from 2008 to 2013. She writes for Now Jakarta magazine. Her weekly food column appeared every Saturday in the Jakarta Globe newspaper for five years until last September 2015 when the paper went online only.
 
Petty is self-taught and a pioneer in developing modern Indonesian cuisine using local, sustainable cooking ingredients. As interest in local recipes and traditions has grown, she has collaborated with a growing list  of leading local restaurants and five star hotels in Jakarta and Bali in the last five years hosting special promotions and designing themed menus.
 
Petty represented Indonesia at both the Leipzig and Frankfurt book fairs in 2015, organising and producing a number of culinary events including two gala dinners at Villa Kennedy and Steigenberger Frankfurter Hof hotel.
 
Petty was voted one of the Powerful Women in Indonesia according to readers of Her World Magazine 2013 and the Peak Indonesia Magazine, 2015. Born in Manado North Sulawesi, Petty resides in Jakarta with her British husband.