Village Squire, 1975-04, Page 19Everything from
turtle soup
to vine leaves
heinvich's
Despite the fact that Western Ontario is
one of the most productive and varied food
producing areas of the world, for many food
fans there was something missing for many
years.
That was back in the early 1950's before
John Ward opened his gourmet food section
in Hdimrich's on Ontario Street in Stratford.
Although the crowds attracted by the
Stratford Festival and the sophisticated tastes
they brought with them helped drive up
business at the store (which is only a couple of
blocks from the Festival Theatre) the store
actually preceeded the Festival by two years.
The guests who started flooding into the
city for the annual festival soon found they
could get many delicacies in the little corner
store they just couldn't find in any other store
in town, or in any store in a lot of other towns
for that matter.
Mr. Ward estimates that his customers
came from a radius of 75 miles around
Stratford in all directions. Though the
Festival visitors are an important part of
business, he finds business strong through
the Christmas season and in the spring once
the roads become good for travelling.
They come for things• like canned vine
leaves, or turtle soup, or coffee from just a
about every country in the world where the
art
Craft
46 Hamilton St., Goderich
1 Block off Royal Bank Corner
LEWIS CRAFT
SUPPLIES
Rug hooking
Needlepoint
Tapestry wool
Rug Wool
Craft yarn
Sayelle yarn
Knitting supplies
GRUMBACHER
ART SUPPLIES
Oil paints
Water colours
Acrylic paints
Sketch hooks
Canvases
Brushes
20% off copper and
brass gifts and .hand
crafted jewellery.
STORE HOURS:
1:30 to 5:30
Closed all day
Wednesday
beverage is served.
There are imported cheeses and ingredi-
ents for those who, like to cook Chinese,
Japanese or Indian food.
For many a novice in the world of gourmet
foods the foods may seem strange. What they
really are, Mr. Ward says, are the national
dishes of nations around the world. Many of
them, he says, he's had to ferret out to try to
get for his store. He says he's learned as
much from people who have travelled around
the world and visited his store to tell him
about foreign foods as he's learned anywhere
else.
What was the strangest request he's ever
had? Well, he can't really say for sure but
about the rarest thing he's been asked for of
late is Torroha Soup, a soup made from a type
of snale in New Zealand which is not being
exported these days because of some sort of
ecological crisis.
The interest in gourmet foods, Mr. Ward
says, is growing because people are
becoming more aware of quality. It used to be
that people knew the price of everything and
the value of nothing. Now people realize that
it's worth paying more for quality.
Quality is also available at Heimrich's in
another deparment where you can buy quality
china and crystal to compliment your gourmet
food.
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