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.

surprised to see Arielle appearing quite competent when she stole a glance over, as

fluidly set up the paper filter inside the filter holder before she raised

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

of this coupled with her deft gestures that

possible for this country girl to know

 

that she was not hallucinating, Shandie

Arielle from

some time before she pinched herself hard

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

drawl in a bid to settle herself and resume her

required two infusions of water, after which an aromatic

her second infusion while she herself was already done, and dismissed Arielle’s knowledge as something the

in response, the host communicated that they could both proceed with

art was

use of whole milk, and each person needed

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