Want a little history with your morning cup of joe? Dearborn's Arab American National Museum has just that with its newest exhibit. Not to spoil it for you, but you can thank the Arab world for that morning jolt.
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The Arab world's great gift to the sleep-deprived gets a compelling once over with the current show at Dearborn's Arab American National Museum.
"From Mocha to Latte: Coffee, the Arab World and the $4 Cup" traces modern life's favorite pick-me-up from its hazy origins in Ethiopia to the huge shift in U.S. coffee tastes after the 1970s arrival of Starbucks, Peet's, and other specialty brewers. The show closes Aug. 15.
The show includes a detailed timeline and a wide range of artifacts -- from ancient roasters and grinders to that almost-vanished staple of 1950s America, the percolator. Even cooler, show organizers cobbled together a video of vintage U.S. television commercials, an amusing trip down memory lane for anyone of a certain age.
How coffee came to bless mankind is a bit unclear. "There are," says AANM curator Elizabeth Barrett, "any number of urban legends around its discovery."
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