Baking Armenian Lavash With Bare Hands, Fire, And Love

When Armenians bake the flatbread known as lavash, they incorporate Christian rituals and family knowledge -- but there aren't many who still practice this culinary craft at home. Knarik Torosian is one of a few elders in her village who still makes lavash in an underground wood-fired oven, saving her stockpile of homemade bread to last through the long winter.