The Amazing Art of Bread Baking in Tajikistan

    
     

 In Tajikistan, bread is still baked in a beautiful, traditional way at Shamsullo Dustov’s house in Kumsangir—just 30 miles from the Afghan border. Much of the surrounding land is nonarable, so the homemade bread makes up a large part of peoples’ average daily caloric intake.

• Watch the process unfold in John Wendle's short piece.