SENIORS from the College of Tourism and Hospitality Management paid homage to two of man’s most loved delights — coffee and ice cream.
Held last September 16 at the Palasyo de Maynila in Roxas Boulevard, Fahrenheit: Degrees of Euphoric Temptations featured entrepreneurs who made it big in the local coffee and ice cream industries such as Pacita Juan of the Philippine Coffee Board and Gilbert Jose of Creamline Ice Cream. They tackled everything about coffee and ice cream, from the food’s history to possible business opportunities here and abroad.
Quite fittingly, the image used for the event was fire and ice, which symbolized the two contrasting temperatures of coffee and ice cream.
Aside from a free-tasting of different kinds of coffee and ice cream and a demo on how to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen (by Chef Johann Santos of Zenses Neo-Shanghai Cuisine), another highlight of the event was a photo exhibit by UST students.
The photos appealed to different emotions — with some photos being dramatic while others were plain or fun. For example, A1 by Justin Guintu from the College of Architecture used lighting to make a simple picture of a melting ice look very striking. The tungsten color gave the photograph a mood of relaxed solitude.
Still by Guintu, A3 was a photo of a reflection on a glass table of a man drinking coffee. The man in the photo could be seen reading a newspaper, probably conveying the idea of the relaxing effects of coffee amid the daily dose of negativity one gets from the news.
On the lighter side, Eating Ice Cream by Asheleiy Kasala presented the childlike joy one gets in revelling in the cold treat. The black and white photo portrayed a little girl messily enjoying her scoop of ice cream, with the area around her mouth covered with the stuff.
A similar photo was B4 which was a picture of bright yellow ice creamwafer cones. The luminosity of the cones was caused by light reflecting on it, giving a feeling of simple and immediate happiness that could be associated to what ice cream brings.
The quality of the photographs varied with the camera used. Some were really good while others were riddled with highly-visible pixels or “noise.”
However, these minor technicalities were not enough to spoil the images the photos contained, which summed up what coffee and ice cream meant for these students. Maria Joanna Angela D. Cruz
