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Elif Ekin emphasizes Turkish coffee's role in building relationships and community.

Kahve Café in Salt Lake City offers traditional Turkish coffee and hospitality.

Turkish fortune-telling with coffee grounds fosters reflection and connection among patrons.

SALT LAKE CITY — It's not just a cup of coffee. Not if your name, Elif, your family — and your coffee — is from Turkey.

"It's about building relationships. It's about getting to know people," Elif Ekin said.

As the coffee origin story goes, an Ethiopian goatherder noticed that when his animals ate certain berries, they didn't sleep at night. News of the berries spread to monks who used them to stay up late to pray.

Coffee made its way across the Red Sea and north to Turkey, where in

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