About Peaceful Cuisine with Ryoya Takashima
Peaceful Cuisine produces beautiful videos of Japanese and international vegan recipes.
Ryoya Takashima was born in Japan in 1983. When he was 20 he went to Australia to study English and took a job in a café as a chef’s assistant. This was the beginning of his journey into cooking.
On return to Japan he worked for 2 years as a chef in a macrobiotic café. During this time he became interested in raw food and studied at Living Light Culinary Art Institute in California.
He then moved to Tokyo to teach vegan and raw vegan cooking classes. It was also at about this time that Ryoya began producing his recipe videos.
Ryoya believes that “When you live a healthy and vibrant life through vegan lifestyle, others around you will take note and become aware of the value and benefit in adopting this lifestyle.”.He states three reasons for becoming vegan, environmental, animal welfare and health benefits.
He believes it is empowering for people to take control of their own health. However, he does not like to push his viewpoint onto others, preferring to show people through his videos, cooking classes and his own lifestyle that you can eat only plants and be healthy.
In his own words, “I felt it to be my mission to make more people realize how a vegan lifestyle can be one of the key methods in bringing about world peace as we all strive for pursuit of happiness.”.
To try one of Ryoya’s recipes click on a link below or scroll to the end of this post for all of Ryoya’s links.
Cook with Peaceful Cuisine
Book (Currently only in Japanese)
