What I am less confident about, however, is my own coffee fortune-telling abilities, so imagine my panic when Bal gives me a cup to read. “This is my coffee, it was from before,” she says.

After the fortune-telling from the cup, it was the plate’s turn. He told me to make a wish before the fortune telling started, then allow one drop of coffee to run down the back of the plate.

What no one knows is when, exactly, reading the shapes left at the bottom of a cup of Turkish coffee became customary as a sort of everyday, casual, communal, culturally reinforced fortune-telling.

After Carole Radziwill of “The Real Housewives of New York” got a reading from Queens coffee fortune teller Sema Bal, people have been willing to pay up to $1,000 to book a reading. “That is ...

But the fortune-telling part of coffee drinking is widely known, and sometimes, the saucers are even designed with zodiac symbols on the dish.

But as soon as the plates were cleared and the coffee served, we nestled ourselves between our parents’ elbows, around the large, oak dining table, waiting eagerly for the fortune-telling to begin.

He’ll tell your fortune by reading your coffee grounds. He’ll sell you handcrafted Turkish delights. He’ll randomly invite you into his NYC apartment for a podcast. How Uluç Ülgen, a ...

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The Ottomans were pioneers not only in coffee cultivation but also in creating rituals around its consumption, such as the traditional Turkish coffee fortune-telling, where the grounds left in the ...

Ballstonian: Urban Oasis’s first event, a Turkish coffee fortune-telling ritual, will take place this Saturday, Aug. 10 from 9-11 a.m.