Where did you go last night after school? I was waiting for you, Megumi asked her friends. Oh, we were waiting for you as well, replied her friends, we thought you were coming with us to eat pizza. Pizza! You should have told me you were going, you know I have never tasted pizza before, don't you. We know you haven't, but I thought I told you we were going.

No you didn't! Okay. Let's go tomorrow to the pizza shop. We can go after school. Oh I can't wait!

It was 1974. Megumi's mother Michiko Anyoji was a teacher, so she always came home very late, and was never able to make dinner for Megumi and her twin sisters. So Megumi had still not been able to eat the popular food in Japan called Pizza.

Pizza had only been introduced to Japan a few years ago, and her friends that had eaten pizza said it was delicious. Megumi was also determined to eat pizza.

A day past, and at last it was Thursday, the day when her friends were going to take her to eat pizza. Megumi was so excited. The restaurant smelt very good. It was not a posh restaurant. A lot of students had come from other schools as well. They sat in the corner and waited. There were no choice of pizza then. You could only have the plain type. There were lots of people in the restaurant, and they had to wait for quite long.

But at last the pizzas arrived to their table. Megumi took a big bite from the beginning because she was sure it would taste great, and it did. It was so good that she asked for another piece.

A few months later, Megumi went to the supermarket to buy some things for her dinner. She went to the refrigerator to get some orange juice, when she saw a big square box. It was pizza that you just had to microwave. Megumi bought the pizza, and went straight back home.

When she got back, her sisters were waiting for their dinner, so Megumi quickly made their dinners, then sat down on her chair to read the instructions of how to make the pizza. She was good at cooking, so she could have easily made the pizza except there was one problem. She didn't have a microwave at their house to warm up the pizza. Megumi was first very disappointed, but then she looked at the very bottom of the instruction where it said that you could also make it with a frying pan.

So Megumi got the frying pan out, and started to warm up the pizza. It took her a very long time just to do one pizza. At the beginning, she also burnt the pizzas too much. But she always loved all the pizzas she made because they tasted so wonderful even if they were burnt.