Chapter 23

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.

stole a glance over, as though the latter actually knew what

set up the paper filter inside the filter holder before she raised the kettle to pour the boiling water

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

easy to tell from Arielle’s understanding of this coupled with her deft gestures that she knew how to make

it be possible for this country girl to know how to brew?

 

of her certainty that she was not hallucinating, Shandie was

Arielle from the countryside?

herself hard and turned her focus back to the task at

to make coffee, will she

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

infusions of water, after which an

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

response, the host communicated that they could both proceed with

art was the real litmus

use of whole milk, and each person

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