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Stuffed Grape Leaf – Etli Yaprak Dolmasi Roller Video Perhaps I am a sucker for a good street side show where a man sets up a little table, starts yelling and screaming, and then puts on a little show to sell some kind of miraculous gadget. [adsense] I am reminded of the old stories of [...]

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Stuffed Grape Leaf – Etli Yaprak Dolmasi Roller Video

Perhaps I am a sucker for a good street side show where a man sets up a little table, starts yelling and screaming, and then puts on a little show to sell some kind of miraculous gadget.

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I am reminded of the old stories of wandering Chinese medicine vendors who would put on martial arts shows in the streets to attract a crowd to buy their miracle cures.

If a man yells in the street, I watch him.

Grape leaf roller

Grape leaf roller

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Wade from Vagabond Journey.com
in Istanbul, Turkey- March 1, 2009
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Well this fellow in Sultanahmet was yelling his head off about some sort of gadget, so I listened. Looking down on his table I saw a row of rolled sticks that I initially took to be some odd sort of cigars. But they were rolled with grape leaves, not paper, and filled with rice, not tobacco.

I cannot say that I was as interested anymore, but I watched anyway.

This is a gadget to roll anything in a grape leaf.

Grape leaf roller video


Video of grape leaf rolling gadget.

Stuffed Grape Leaf Roller Video

Filed under: Eastern Europe, Europe, Food, Turkey

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  • F H Joseph December 20, 2010, 8:49 am

    Did not view the grape leaf roller, vidio was not available.
    Where maty I purchase a roller ?

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    • Wade | Vagabond Journey.com December 20, 2010, 9:50 am

      Go to Istanbul, I suppose. Will put the video back up soon.

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  • S S Waheed January 19, 2011, 7:12 am

    The roller looks interesting but the video was not available for the several times I tried. Is it available in the Houston area?

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    • Wade | Vagabond Journey.com January 19, 2011, 10:03 am

      The video was lost when I made adjustments to the back end of this site. I can put it back up. Look for it tomorrow.

      Thanks.

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  • Abdelkareem December 11, 2011, 1:35 pm

    I want to buy a large number of Grape leaf roller / Turkish made.
    Please give me the name of the company and its email address and the price of the machine

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