Article: Crossing cultures: ; Pizza bridges gap between Buffalo students and Japan

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BUFFALO - How to transform a home economics classroom at Buffalo High School into an assembly line for Okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza) by instructor Takeshi Sakai. Step one: Tell students to stir eggs, flour, chopped cabbage, ginger and Worcestershire sauce together, creating a paste that looks a lot like coleslaw.

Step two: Ask other students to press sticky rice into balls for an appetizer, while three young women sing the ABC song with your 4- year-old daughter, Moe.

Step three: Get your spouse to supervise the pizza cooking. It helps if your spouse used to be a home economics teacher in Japan, like Takeshi's wife, Miya. She can help students pour the mixture into the ...

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