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WATCH: An 86-year-old is one of the last Greek bakers who makes phyllo dough by hand. He turned his kitchen into a tourist attraction.

WATCH: An 86-year-old is one of the last Greek bakers who makes phyllo dough by hand. He turned his kitchen into a tourist attraction.

Izabela Cardoso,Fernando Teixeira,Meg Teckman-Fullard

Phyllo dough is a very thin dough used to make pastries like baklava.
The dough is almost exclusively made by machines these days, but one man in Greece has kept alive the tradition of making phyllo by hand.
Giorgos Hatziparaskos has made phyllo dough by hand at his workshop in Rethymno, Greece, for more than 50 years.
Because he can't produce as much dough as a machine, Hatziparaskos stayed afloat by turning his workshop into a tourist attraction where people can see the phyllo maker in action.