A Beauty With Multiple Masks

Vinson wanted to speak up but Arielle shot him a look before she replied with a meaningful smile, “Very well. Challenge accepted!”

Shandie was momentarily taken aback but recovered quickly with a smirk. “Good! Let’s do it. Right here, right now!”

Cindy was not idling away in the gallery either as she went over to hash things out swiftly with the organizers, after which two coffee tables were moved onstage and equipped properly.

Vinson looked a tad apprehensively at Arielle who remained silent throughout.

Once the host saw that both of them are ready, he said, “Ladies, you may begin.”

Shandie burst into action the moment his voice trailed off.

The first step to creating latte art was, of course, to prepare the espresso which had to be hand-brewed by the participants themselves.

The assiduous Shandie weighed up fifteen grams of coffee beans and fed them into the grinder with tremendous refinement.

to see Arielle appearing quite competent when she stole a glance over, as though the latter actually knew what

the paper filter inside the filter holder before she raised the kettle to pour

herself when she observed that, noting that this was something only professional brewers would know. Pouring clockwise would allow for the filter to adhere better to the holder, and at the same time, eliminate the starchy taste from the paper and warm up the receptacle. The resultant would

was easy to tell from Arielle’s understanding of this coupled with her deft gestures that

be possible for this country girl

of her certainty that she was not

Arielle from the

hard and turned her focus

Arielle knows how to make coffee, will she

deep drawl in a bid to settle herself and resume her own

coffee required two infusions of water, after which an

saw Arielle still awaiting her second infusion while she herself was already done, and dismissed Arielle’s

Arielle completed her brewing as well, and in response, the host communicated

to brewing, the latte art