  
Aunt Sally
Goat cheese, fresh vegetables and no stress do a
body good!
May 11, 2004
iranian.com
Her name is Saltanat. Her relatives, children, grand
children, great
grand children and friends call her Aunt Sally (Khalleh Sally -
short
for Saltanat). No one, not even her children, know for sure how
old she
really is. But older relatives and friends swear that she is OVER
110!
Though
her health has been deteriorating of late, Aunt Sally still lives
by herself in a mud house located in the village of Lavlichi
on the edge of Iran's central plains between Isfahan and Naeen.
Aunt
Sally has never taken so much as a single Aspirin or used a band
aid for
a cut on her hands. She owns a few goats and free range chickens
and a
constant supply of eggs, milk, cheese and yogurt. The village
has a
ghanat (Iran's native irrigation mechanism) that gives her enough
fresh
water to grow a few patches of tomatoes, carrots and keep
a few
fruit trees alive.
The nearest important and happening
place is the township of Tudeshk
which straddles the main transit highway connecting Tehran
to the
Persian Gulf port of Bandar Abbas. People of this region
endure a
harshly dry desert climate.
In the absence of large scale and
profitable
farming, the main source of income for a large portion of the
population
in the area has been the production of hand knotted Persian
rugs, mainly
of Tudeshk and Naeen designs.
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