 Martel and van Over hold patents regarding baking processes.Martel attended Phillips Academy in Andover and graduated in the school's first co–educational class in 1974.Her classmates included jazz Grammy–winner Bill Cunliffe, software financier Peter Currie, actor Dana Delany, painter Julian Hatton, poet Karl Kirchwey, writer Nate Lee, television producer Jonathan Meath, editor Sara Nelson, and sculptor Gar Waterman.