Barbara Moran owns Dardinelle's restaurant and Turkish coffee shop in Madison, Wisconsin. She practices the ancient art of coffee divination - reading the future through examination of coffee grounds. Anne Strainchamps visits her for a reading.
Track 5 03:00 Whether you believe in it or not, coffee [did] a nation the act of reading a future [once grounds] has been a part of ritual surrounding coffee since the Arabs began trading it in early 1400s.
Though still common in the Middle East, coffee diviners are rare in the U.S. Anne Strainchamps found one such a person though -- Barbara Moran.
Q: If you find the truth, you have to speak it all you'lll be afraid of it. And all we ask ourselves same questions.
Track 5 04:59 Q: I got to pour my coffee very sludging. Sould I keep drinking the sludge?
A: Put soucer on the top that way, and slip the [holting] over. I will lift up the cup. "Solle Curren Chick Then Fallen" From this moment in time, the fortune [let main] told. It sees the [dera]. Thing that I have appear there are in a cup.
Q: Yeah, looks like a [lava] has scorched the bottom of the cup that has got a flame shape and some.. sort of dark puddle underneath it.
A: The things [our told so] the rim. I think that are happening in the future. This is your distiny that olies in the bottom. The cup.