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.

Arielle appearing quite competent when she stole a glance over,

paper filter inside the filter holder before she raised the kettle to pour the boiling water in, clockwise and in

unable to contain 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

this coupled with her deft gestures that she knew

it be possible for this

she was not hallucinating, Shandie was completely

 from the

pinched herself hard and turned her focus back

Arielle knows how to make coffee, will she be able to do latte

a bid to settle herself and resume her

pour-over coffee required two infusions of water, after which an aromatic cup

while she herself was already done, and dismissed Arielle’s knowledge

in response, the host communicated

the latte art was the real litmus