Article original en anglais.

CANADIANS CHANGING THE WORLD

Canada's unofficial ambassadors

From GLOBE AND MAIL STAFF
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Dec. 31, 2010

They could well be ambassadors.

True, only a few of the 45 extraordinary Canadians profiled here have passed Ottawa’s foreign service exam for future diplomats.

But every one of them might properly and proudly bear that sort of honorific.

Largely unknown and – until now – unheralded, they’re part of our burgeoning Canadian diaspora: 2.7 million men and women, increasingly referred to as Canada’s 11th province – some of whom are making substantial marks in dozens of countries and dozens of fields.

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The Visionaries

From BEPPI CROSARIOL
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Dec. 31, 2010

François Chartier, 45

Wine expert and author

Pickles and ice cream: A practitioner of so-called molecular gastronomy, Mr. Chartier is the first to apply chemical analysis to the pairing of food and drink. His book Taste Buds and Molecules: The Art and Science of Food with Wine shatters age-old conventions about which wine goes with what food, garnering a “best innovative food book” prize at the 2010 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris. He has consulted to top chefs, notably foam maestro Ferran Adria of Spain, to come up with radical new flavour combinations. Cauliflower and papaya, anyone?

From misfortune: A sommelier by training, Mr. Chartier, who lives in Sainte-Adèle, north of Montreal, began his scientific explorations after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the mid-1990s. Interest in a new MS diet and the healing powers of plant compounds sparked curiosity about the aromatic-molecule links between plants and wine. Example: hydrocarbon molecules called terpenes associated with coniferous plants, including rosemary, share a flavour note with Riesling wine.

His 2011 moment: Mr. Chartier hopes to ink a deal with a U.S. publisher this year, and he has just signed a five-year deal with Lasalle College in Montreal to share his research as part of the wine-and-bar-services curriculum.

The breakthrough he dreams of is that the stu-dents there convert to his scientific gospel – and go on to spread it through the world like molecular Johnny Appleseeds.

– Beppi Crosariol

Tiré de l'article "The visionaries" en anglais, dans le Globe and Mail, 31 décembre 2010. Par Beppi Crosariol.

Lire aussi : Canadians Changing the World - Canada's unofficial ambassadors, par le Globe and Mail staff, 31 décembre 2010.