Visitors, villagers connect in rural home stays
By Jodi Hilton
YUVACALI, Turkey - Wearing an embroidered lavender headscarf popular with Kurdish women, Pero Salva, 45, rolled out a thin, round circle of dough before moving it to a crackling hearth where it quickly bubbled and toasted. Visitors watched attentively before making their own attempts. Jenni Meaney, 55, a multimedia producer from Melbourne, Australia, and an experienced bread maker, struggled to learn the special rolling technique in which the tortilla-thin bread dough is rolled and simultaneously flipped over a thin, wooden stick. Both women laughed at Meaney’s attempt, which, though clumsy, produced a tasty result.
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