Recipes for Japanese Russian dishes continued to be available on the popular website Cookpad after the decision to remove all Russian recipes. This was reported by the correspondent “socialbites.ca”, who studied sections of the international version of the site.
The site gives 146 recipes for various dishes when entering the query “Russian cuisine”. Among them are borscht, fire cutlets, sea pasta, okroshka, crab stick salad, Herring Salad Under a Fur Coat, pancakes and pies with various fillings.
Recipes come with detailed instructions, but all are available in Japanese only. Judging by the profiles of the authors, these are Japanese people who are fond of Russian cuisine.
On January 11, it was learned that there was Cookpad kitchen service. to pick up A collection of all Russian recipes.
The reasons were not clearly stated in the statement, only “The external office of Cookpad Inc. has made the difficult decision to close Cookpad in Russia as of January 31.”
The media said the unofficial reason for this decision was that the source belonged to a company from Japan, a country that supports anti-Russian sanctions.