A successful experiment

Abstract
Two American exchange students in Japan attempt to cook Thanksgiving dinner.

Introduction
My friend and fellow American Nicole asked if I wanted to help her make Thanksgiving dinner for her host family. So on Thursday after class we made our way to the supermarket. Finding the ingredients was almost more challenging than cooking the food. In American grocery stores, the salt is usually located next to the pepper, right? But in Japan it is located next to the sugar, which is several ailes away from the pepper. We even had to resort to getting out the Japanese-English dictionary when trying to discern which one of the many bags of white powder contained flour.

Fig 1.1. Data analysis


Materials Used
Our menu, unfortunately, was restricted by the lack of available Thanksgiving goodies in Japan, including turkeys, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie mix. Neither of us felt up to the task of actually making pumpkin pie out of pumpkins, so we bought pumpkin-flavored pudding. I will really miss my Grandma's pumpkin pies, which were amazing last year. Seriously. They're like the only thing I remember about last year.

This was our modified Thanksgiving dinner menu:

Almond Chicken
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
String beans with almonds and browned butter
Stuffing
Bread rolls
Pumpkin pudding
Apple juice

The stuffing and gravy are thanks to Nicole's father, who sent the mixes from America. Ignore the Reese's Peices on the table. Nicole just wanted to set them out because they look American.

Fig. 1.2. Materials


Methods
Nicole's host family's kitchen was a little tight, and pots and pans were limited. Luckily, Nicole is an engineer and thus set out a very logical plan for cooking. For example, we had no measuring cups, so Nicole grabbed an empty soda can that was 120 milliliters and was able to calculate all the amounts of ingredients from that. Genius.
I made origami turkeys to compensate for the lack of real ones.

Fig. 1.3. Methods



Results
In the end, Nicole and I pulled off a pretty awesome dinner for her host mom and sister, who praised it to no end. Since they're Japanese, I wasn't sure if that meant they actually liked it, but the host sister ate quite a lot of stuffing and gravy. As for me, I haven't felt so happily stuffed since I left the US.

Fig. 1.5. Results



Summary and Recommendations
Please appreciate how amazing these turkeys are.

Fig 1.6. Turkey madness