A Umu is where the Samoan people cook their food.
It needs dry coconut and banana leaves, rocks. dry wood sticks, taros, and taro leaves.
The Samoan skills are when you have to always be patient, have ears on, watch and learn.
Yes I have experienced the same cooking process in Maori culture in NZ. Their name for umu is called hangi. Samoan people cook taros, bananas, luau, pig and chickens in their umu. I couldn't have done it without Wilma's help :).
