This exploration of religion and food through festivals, includes an introduction to Roman Catholicism, its festivals and celebrations, including weddings, Christmas and carnival.

The origins of foods are also explained, particularly those with which children are familiar such as pasta, spaghetti, mozarella cheese, minestrone soup and ice-cream.

The farming section introduces geographical information such as landscape and climate, the major food products of each country and how they are produced.

There are also four simple, step-by-step recipes in each book for use in Food Science lessons.

It supports literacy strategy: range of text, including recipe, information text, captions and labels in each title, and develops numeracy skills through the handing of basic numbers, weights and measures.