Atsuko’s Kitchen, London

Atsuko has been sharing her knowledge and techniques of Japanese cooking with a series of courses, which introduces family favourites, alongside Shojin Ryori dishes, a super-healthy vegan cuisine of Japanese Buddhist origins.

Her passion for food and ability to impart serious culinary skills and principles with humour and warmth draw people to Atsuko’s Kitchen from all across London and further afield. Those who have enjoyed the expertise and entertainment of her hands-on cooking classes now number in their thousands and have been from a complete range of ages, nationalities and levels of culinary confidence.

Her classes are informal and interactive, resembling more of a dinner party with friends than a classroom lesson. Her down-to-earth and unpretentious approach to cuisine combined with her talent to create delicious, simple to prepare, beautiful meals perfectly impart the Japanese ph