Recipes for people

OPENSAUCE is the open-source recipe platform.

This is the movement that passes down the recipes to the future.
Just as music has been passed to us with the score, we share recipes to the world with pleasant memories, information, and experiences.

This is the project that shares the joy we can obtain from delicious and healthy food.

OPENSAUCE was established on the 25th of December in 2017 with these concepts in mind.

Cooking is part of the wisdom of human beings.

Since time immemorial, people have been discovering different ways to cook, and becoming more sophisticated at it as they evolve.

Today, we have created the skills and ideas to eat natural blessings in much safer, tastier, and happier ways.

Chefs are facing new challenges every day, all over the world.
They cook for themselves, and they cook for others, as well.

We believe that what always lies at the heart of human beings are eating and cooking.
In fact, several theories say that one of the biggest and the most important reasons why we have developed our thinking and language ability could be because we have developed our brains by cooking.

The recipes are probably gifts from our ancestors.

Existence of Restaurants

One of the ubiquitous venues where we cook for others is restaurants.

Restaurants always offer the very best in hospitality through the wide range of ingredients they use, the wonderful culinary skills that they possess, beautiful presentation of dishes that they painstakingly put together, and the friendly service of their staff.

Restaurants have been putting so much effort just to see the delighted faces of their customers and to receive compliments from their guests.

However, today, with the Coronavirus pandemic that is extremely contagious, restaurants and the food culture itself are facing a grave threat and are in danger of closing down.

Share your thoughts

What do chefs think about when they cook?
By using the recipe shared here, people may discover new things and learn more about the dish. Moreover, this is an opportunity for people to learn more about what chefs think about, and the philosophies of their restaurants.

Feel more than eat.

With the recipes shared here, we can deliver special experiences to all people who love to eat, not only to your regular customers.

What can we do now?

Under the circumstances we are facing right now, many have made the wrenching decision to close their restaurants just to protect the health of their guests and staff.
Some restaurants have started a new business model with takeout or online services to tackle the situation. However, not all restaurants can adjust easily.
Thinking about the areas and the amount to cover, it might not be easy to make food available to customers.

But what about sending the recipes out…?

Sharing recipes could be one of the ways to create new food experiences and to contribute to society today.

How does it work?

Website

Recipes

Users

Youtube/LINE/Facebook/Twitter/
cookpad/ etc…

  1. This is for non-profit purposes.
  2. The purposes of this project are as mentioned above.
  3. Recipes will be provided with their names, the creator chef’s name, and the restaurant name.
  4. The rights of the recipes provided belong to the creators, but they will be published publicly as open-source recipe data.
  5. The recipes that will be published may be used by everyone.
  6. If someone wants to open a restaurant, adding the recipe shared here to their menu, we would love to send cheers to them!

Deliver this recipe to everyone!

Cooking is one of the greatest entertainments that makes people happy.
By cooking the recipe shared here, people will:

  1. Spend fulfilling time at home
  2. Support food producers
  3. Have a healthy and rich food experience
  4. Get to know what chefs think about
  5. Learn about more restaurants

We will be providing the new values of restaurants by this movement, and we hope to get your support.

Providing your recipe

If you would like to support the project, please share your recipe to the email address below.

In your email, please include:

  1. The name of the dish.
  2. Your restaurant name and information (address, phone number, email address, URL).
    *If you can share restaurant's logo data and/or a picture of the restaurant and/or the chef with us, we would be happy to use them.
  3. The chef’s name.
  4. An explanation of the dish.
  5. A picture of the dish (if possible).

How to support your recipe

We would like to create a way for people who use the recipe you provided to support you.
*OPENSAUCE will not intervene with these grants.

On the website, we will have a 《Support》button on each recipe.
Users can decide how much they will spend to support your recipe and send it through online.

We are currently working on this service to work.
We will notify you how to get this support when we finalize the system.

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Artwork by Dice Tsutsumi / Tonko House