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Food technology or cooking used to be a subject that only girls took. However boys in our modern age have figured out that girls no longer want to stay in the kitchen. Thus id they are going to eat, they better learn how to cook themselves. As a result, quite a number of boys at New Zealand schools sign up for food technology. Notably few boys sign up for other courses in the home economics area--such as sewing. Cooking is another matter. Despite all the changes underway, few mothers have taught their sons how to cook.
Food Technology this year has been great. We have learnt, and seen a lot of new things. They range from mouldy potatoes to burning our food and setting off the fire alarm. Some of our creations included, crispy fried rice, mushy muffins and flying pancakes, although they all tasted great. We would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Rissman for being brave enough to be the Food Technology teacher this year. I'm sure some days she thinks she is teaching a group of chimpanzees, although most of us look like humans.
Jemma Rickenbach and Susan Chen, Room 18, Mt. Rosekill Intermediate School, 1999
In Food Technology we don't just do cooking, we learn about planning meals and
menus. One Monday morning we had to design and make a hamburger. We had to create a name and packet for marketing it. But we went one step further, we made a little ditty for it. It goes like this:
Yum,yum,yum,yum
yum, yum, yum,yum,
Bacon
Squegy, yum, yum, yum,
If you're hungry from your
tummy and you worry about your money,
Buy the new Bacon Squegy
Yum, yum, yum.
Kurt Breetvelt and Kartikh Khambhampati, Room 15, Mt. Rosekill Intermediate School, 1999
