Mireille Pavez reaches into the thick grape vine that grows in her garden, looking for just the right size leaves. “These are too big,” she says, tossing them on the ground. When she has found the ...

Note: Adapted by Barbara Petzen from versions by Meltem Tanriverdi and her family, and Claudia Roden and Tyler Florence. Petzen says Tanriverdi’s family were her neighbors in Adana, Turkey, more than ...

When it comes to making stuffed vine leaves, Dilvin Yasa insists she learned from the best (and explains why that’s a problem). Whether you’ve publicly articulated it or not, everyone’s got a ‘death ...

Boiling the onions before stuffing them helps soften the layers, making them easier to separate and roll. The outer layers of ...