Yoshiko, tell us about your journey into the food world. Where did it begin and how?
I’ve just loved eating since I was a child. In Japan, there are food displays in front of the restaurants and I remember looking at them, thinking about them, dreaming about how tasty they would be.
Unfortunately (and somewhat fortunately) my mum is not a good cook. My best memories of cooking in childhood are baking bread and cookies with my friends and their mother. I then went to a cooking school when I was a university student in Japan because all my friends’ mothers would cook such nice meals when I went to visit. I
