'Latte Art', the cappuccino challenge between swans and tulips

ROME - Butterflies, swans or peacocks, but also angels and many 'painted' flowers on cappuccinos and spotted coffee.
It is called "Latte Art" and is the increasingly refined technique for decorating the surface of cups and cups with geometric designs and shapes that are also highly complex. A technique that has also become a competitive discipline that sees competitors from all over the world competing in Palermo these days, demonstrating their manual skills and their artistic spirit. At ExpoCook, the annual food fair there are milk artists, from Chiara Bergonzi vice world champion 2016, to Manuela Fensor world champion in charge, to Giuseppe Fiorini Italian champion 2016. Secrets are firm hand, precision, artistic vein and of course the technique. The most common is the pouring, that is the designs made using only the milk jug; moving it in certain ways you can get different types of designs, but also different shades of color. The second most common technique is etching, thanks to which it is possible to obtain geometric, written and animal shapes using special fine-tipped pens and for some designs also cocoa topping which will then be modeled with the help of these tools. . The "3D cappuccino", on the other hand, sees the use of milk foam to create relief figures that "come out" from the cup; to obtain this type of result you need a foam full of air bubbles, mounted to the maximum.