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YUCa^® – Entrepreneur & Culinary Expert

Originally from Fukushima Prefecture, she grew up in a farming family and enjoyed locally grown food from northern Japan. She worked as a food writer in Toronto (Canada) and New York (U.S.), then returned to Tokyo, where she worked as a chef at a fermented food and vegetarian/vegan cuisine restaurant as well as at a kindergarten.

In 2013, she launched her Japanese cooking classes and has since been teaching home cooking to guests from all over the world while continuing to develop new recipes. In April 2019, she published YUCa’s Japanese Cooking -The first cookbook by YUCa (available in English only). She launched the recipe app Recipe by YJC in February 2020.

Her cooking classes were honored by Tripadvisor as “Best Cooking Class in Japan” in 2018 and 2019, and “Best of the Best” in 2021 and 2023. In 2023, she launched the premium Japanese tea brand YUCa’s Tea.

She is a wife and mother to two children and two toy poodles.

2013年に訪日外国人向け和食料理教室事業を立ち上げ、以来、世界中から訪れるゲストに家庭料理を教えながら、新しいレシピの開発も続ける。2019年4月に初の料理本「YUCa’s Japanese Cooking（英語版のみ）」を出版。2020年2月にレシピアプリ「Recipe by YJC」をリリース。

当料理教室は、2018年と2019年に世界最大級の口コミサイトTripadvisorにより「日本で最高の料理教室」として選出される。2021年と2023年には同サイトから「Best of the Best」に選出される。2023年にはプレミアム日本茶ブランド「YUCa’s Tea」を立ち上げる。

2人の子どもと2匹のトイプードルを育てる母でもある。

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