The Niagara Advance
June 13, 1998
Paul-André Bosc recently returned
from a trip to England, where he met the Queen at a Canada
House celebration, also attended by Prime Minister Jean Chrètien.
Paul Bosc Jr. of Château des Charmes
Winery in St. David's was the only Ontario wine representative
on hand for the re-opening of Canada House recently, as well
as the kick-off to a month-long celebration of Canadian food
and wine taking place at 60 festivals throughout England and
Scotland.
Canada House, a home-away-from-home
for Canadian travelers, is a 200 year-old building on London's
Trafalgar Square. After being closed for two years for renovations,
Her Majesty the Queen and Prime Minister Jean Chrètien officially
re opened the "national treasure," with five top chefs from
across Canada preparing and serving regional cuisine.
The chef from the Royal York Hotel
in Toronto captured the attention of the Queen with the foie
gras he was preparing, and the chef in turn introduced Bosc
as the maker of the wine he was cooking with, the vice president
of marketing and administration for Château des Charmes explained.
She seemed most sincere in her interest,
Bosc said, and on hearing he was from Niagara-on-the-Lake,
she told him she had visited the town, and it is one of her
favourite places.
Prince Phillip, on discovering the
chef was using Italian olive oil, observed that if grapes
and peaches can be grown in Southern Ontario, perhaps olives
could be as well? Bosc said, "I
assured him if we are ever successful at growing olives in
Niagara I would make sure he got credit for the idea."
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