Chocolatier Fiona McArthur is making vegan chocolate for the Oscars. (Image courtesy: AFP)
In an incredible story fit for Hollywood, a vegan chocolate seller in a remote Scottish port town has created confectionaries to give away to silver screen icons at next month’s Oscars. Fiona MacArthur’s luxury chocolates will be handed out to Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone and other VIPs at cinema’s biggest annual night, with a box going to each nominee in the main categories. MacArthur, 37, opened her small chocolate shop in Campbelltown, western Scotland, in 2019, but it soon caught the attention of the company responsible for assembling Academy Award goodie bags.
At first he thought it was a betrayal. But after verifying the firm online, she realized the offer to help fill thousands of dollars worth of gift packs for the March 10 celebration was genuine. “It’s amazing! I still can’t believe it,” he told AFP from his self-owned and operated shop “Fetcha”. He said, “Best Director, Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress – they all get a box of mine.” “I’m really excited… it’s amazing!” MacArthur, a film buff, watched most of the films in his career. The nominees filmed in the local art-deco cinema – opened in 1913 – with notebooks in hand to jot down ideas for the upcoming tailor-made boxes. They designed six different vegan chocolates inspired by this awards year’s biggest films .
Diversity
oppenheimer The chocolates, inspired by the 13-Oscar nominated drama about the inventor of the atomic bomb, resemble balls of fire. The yellow and orange truffle has a hard shell with popping candy “so when you bite into it, it explodes in your mouth” with a burning pepper that “makes your tongue hot”, she explained. .
Chocolate for dark comedy poor things – Woman frankenstein Story for 11 Awards – The Portuguese “Pastel de Nata” was based on egg tarts, which the main character Bella Baxter ate. The chocolate has a custard flavored interior, with cinnamon sprinkled on top to give it a baked look.
barbie Represented by heart-shaped pink chocolate flavored with strawberry and rose. MacArthur said, but the hearts are “somewhat rough… like her journey from Barbieland to the real world is not a smooth journey, it’s full of angles.”
For artistRegarding the famous American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, he created illustrations of musical note bars from cocoa butter. She delicately imprinted them on the chocolates, which also included salt and pepper to represent the “separate… but together” lives of Bernstein and his wife Felicia.
Martin Scorsese’s flower moon killer Lilac, yellow and green pieces are honed using dark chocolate and caramel ganache.
Ultimately, holdover Re-imagined as a dark chocolate shell with cherries and ice cream interior.
going to hollywood
Before sealing each of his boxes and mailing them to Los Angeles, MacArthur wrote a booklet explaining the inspirations behind his sweet creations. It’s a long way from his mother’s humble Campbelltown kitchen to Tinseltown, where he honed his skills.
Part of MacArthur’s Hollywood appeal may be that she runs a “luxury micro-business” with a focus on environmentalism and health consciousness. The chocolate maker himself is vegan, and several nominees, including Emma Stone and Paul Giamatti, are also vegan. She doesn’t use plastic and pledges to plant a tree with every order
Meanwhile their vegan, gluten-free chocolates are made from organic and fair-trade ingredients “as far as possible”, and their Oscar creations are alcohol-free. “Chocolate is made from rice milk powder,” McArthur explained. “And then a lot of the chocolates I make have ganache inside them and so I use water ganache.”
His Oscar role has achieved celebrity status in Campbelltown, with people stopping him on the street to congratulate him. So much so that his shop, where his mother helps, is no longer able to meet the local demand for Oscar collections.
A sign in the window reads, “We’re sorry, the prize collection is out of stock.” The window also displays a small red carpet and a sign that reads: “Fetcha is going to Hollywood”.
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