Hi my name is Kasai Eiko. I’m a dentist, scout leader, house wife and mother of two sons and two daughters. I live in Yokohama Japan. I love cooking and I’m good at cooking with leftovers. I’m now a Cookpad UK and Cookpad Russia Ambassador.
I joined Cookpad Japan in 2014 because there's a dormitory for foreign students in Yokohama National University near my house and I have many foreign friends. When they came to my kitchen they showed me their home cooking and I showed them my cooking. The recipes they showed became so precious to me. But because their cooking methods were so different, I had to write in my notebook. Then I found that Cookpad made it so easy to collect these recipes with beautiful photos, so I started uploading my recipes to begin making my beautiful recipe book.
Now 307 recipes are in my Cookpad Japan. Most of the recipes are foreign home cooking recipes.
Why I started sharing on Cookpad UK
Cookpad Tokyo HQ introduced me to Cookpad overseas. I didn’t know Cookpad existed in other languages. I thought Cookpad was only in Japan.
So I started sharing my daily home cooking with photos. I’m not good at English, so my many photos help people to understand my recipes. Now I enjoy Cookpad UK so much, connecting with other home cooks and seeing and feeling what they eat and cook daily on the other side of the earth.
I also started looking at Cookpad in other languages using google translate. It’s so fun to know what other countries’ are cooking on a daily basis. I realised cooking was a language in itself and we can communicate through cooking all over the world. Cooking has no borders!
Follow Aunty Eiko's International Cuisine Experience for global recipes, including many traditional Japanese home cooking recipes.