Cookpad.com is a Japanese-language cooking website, which focuses on recipe sharing by users. The site is entirely in Japanese, and does not have an English translation available.

Cookpad.com was launched in October of 1998. It has grown to be the largest recipe sharing website in Japan, and will be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on July 17, 2009.

Cookpad.com offers nearly 560,000 user-submitted recipes, with most contributors being Asian women in the 18-49 age range. Basic membership is free, and access to premium features is available for a fee of approximately $3 a month. http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/09/09/cookpad-the-number-one-recipe-site/

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