Introduction
At the start of the year, some of the Italian exchange students taught us how to make pizza in our school. One of the boys, Luigi, works in his father’ s pizza parlour at weekends. He showed us how to make pizza base from scratch and put on our own toppings. The pizzas were gorgeous!
We got the idea for our make a book from our pizza demonstration and talking about how much everyone likes cooking in Home Economics class. We talked about our favourite recipes, and realised we all like savoury foods.
During our research for our book, we learned about the taste buds, and heard of‘ Umami’ for the first time. We thought it was a great title for the book because it means‘ savoury’ like all our favourite recipes. It also means‘ yummy’ in Japanese!
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