March 2024

2024-03-01 13:47:24

CAMPBELTOWN | His improbable story might inspire a film. Fiona McArthur, a young vegan chocolatier in a remote Scottish port, was asked to make chocolates for the Oscars in March in Los Angeles.

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Passionate regarding cinema, she saw most of the films in competition in the local art deco cinema opened in 1913, notebook in hand to take notes. From there, she designed six vegan chocolates, inspired by the best-placed films.

Chocolate Oppenheimer, a drama regarding the father of the atomic bomb, Oscar favorite with 13 nominations, thus resembles a ball of fire. This yellow and orange truffle with a sparkling candy inside, has a “fairly hard shell so when you bite, it sort of explodes in your mouth” explains the 37-year-old chocolatier. A little chili then leaves a little heat in the mouth.

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The black comedy Poor creaturesluck of Frankenstein for women, which has 11 nominations, inspired a white chocolate in a milk chocolate case with a hint of cinnamon.

Barbie has its heart-shaped pink chocolate, with flavors of strawberry and rose. But the hearts that Fiona McArthur unmold and place on a plate are not smooth.

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“It goes with the story,” she said. “They’re roughly cut, much like her journey through Barbieland to the real world. It wasn’t a smooth journey, it was full of angles.

One of his other chocolates celebrates the film Maestro regarding the composer Leonard Bernstein, with musical notes made from cocoa butter delicately placed on salt and pepper chocolate.

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Salt and pepper were chosen to “celebrate the difference and complementarity of Leonard and Felicia’s lives”.

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Killers of the Flower Moon has its dark chocolate caramel ganache, with touches of lilac, yellow and green, and for Those who remain Fiona McArthur imagined a dark chocolate shell with cherry interior and ice cream.

Before closing each of her boxes, she slips in an explanatory note regarding her inspiration.

Its chocolates will be part of the “goodies”, gift bags worth tens of thousands of dollars offered to the main Oscar nominees.

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Its chocolates are all vegan, dairy-free, egg-free and alcohol-free.

She herself is vegan, and says that several nominees are too, like Emma Stone and Paul Giamatti.

Fiona, who started testing her chocolates in her mother’s kitchen, is passionate regarding it. His “luxury microenterprise” (…) does not use plastic. In her presentation note, she specifies “that trees are planted for each order, and that she uses organic and fair trade products as much as possible”.

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Enough to catch the eye of the company responsible for the Oscars “goodies” which contacted it two years ago. Fiona had thought it was a hoax. She had searched on the internet. The business existed.

In Campbeltown where she grew up, she feels like a minor celebrity. People stop her in the street to congratulate her, she says. Her shop, where her mother helps, is no longer able to meet local demand.

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“Sorry, out of stock,” says a placard.

A small red carpet was displayed in the window. “Fetcha is going to Hollywood,” we can read on a small sign.

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His chocolates have already gone there, by post.

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