Foods Class Goes Italian

Imagine walking down the halls of Springville Junior High School and smelling dinner from your childhood. You follow your nose to a classroom filled with students enjoying themselves while creating a beautiful masterpiece of pasta. That is what the ninth-grade food class looked like on February 14 and 15. The students in foods 1 class are studying countries from around the world, and that week they were studying Italy. Since pasta is a big thing in Italy, the classes made it!

The students made the pasta by first making the dough, then flattening it and putting it through the Kitchenaid pasta maker. The next day, while the pasta was baking, the students made red sauce to put on their pasta. When the noodles were all done, the students happily ate the pasta with gusto. According to Samantha Allen, a ninth grader at SJHS, and her kitchen group, they had a very fun time making the pasta, and ate all the noodles that they had made. Most of the students in the foods class enjoyed making the pasta. Mrs. Luke, the foods teacher at SJHS, said, “It was the most successful lab out of all of the labs we have done,” 

Almost all of the student’s pasta turned out great! According to Mrs. Luke, the students did really well in making sure all of the measurements were correct. She was very excited that this foods lab went well and that the students had fun. Becca Dickenson, a ninth grader at SJHS, said, “The pasta tasted magical! It was a lot of fun to make!” Most of the students, after the pasta lab, are glad they took foods and would do it again in a heartbeat. According to Eduardo Garcia, a ninth grader at SJHS, he has fun learning to make cool food and loves to eat it afterwards!