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- Typically served with food: Paklava Discussion of Paklava variations - Coffee is Armenan: 'Surj' / 'black water' Etymology of word - Coffee as energy to get through the day - Coffee ceremony as therapy/opportunity to talk with friends about life difficulties - Coffee & blacksmiths: will sometimes prepare coffee over their forge - Description of how to prepare for a reading: Place the cup upside down on a saucer in a specific way, let grounds dry 1. Coffee reading demonstration: for audience member - Length of ceremony; can last minutes or hours - intimacy; can be private/secret topics 2. Coffee reading for a different audience member Interpret symbols that appear in dry grounds - Cam press grounds on better of cup and see what appears