Sharing sweet, deep-fried dough to remember loved ones
by editors@theworld.org (Dorian Jones) from The World: Latest Stories on (#79DWZ)
In Turkey, families commemorate their loved ones by sharing lokma - a small, deep-fried desert - and by saying prayers for the departed. Lokmaci Baba, dubbed Papa Doughnut, rolls through Istanbul with his lokma-mobile when summoned by those who lost someone. Reporter Dorian Jones joined him to uncover the story behind this heartfelt ritual.