How to Make Yogurt at Home, According to a Turkish Master

Part science, part magic, but mostly patience

All you need for homemade yogurt is milk, a pot, and a spoonful of plain, unsweetened yogurt. Liliya Kandrashevich/Shutterstock

I am a yogurt convert. While teaching English for a year in Turkey, I learned just how central it is to that, er, culture. 

First, an amusingly awkward haggling lesson from a door-to-door yogurt seller. People were buying it in kilos?!