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Good Food Quotes

“GoodSoup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party.  A prelude to the goodness to come.”
Louis P. De Gouy, ‘The Soup Book’ (1949)

“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) American writer.

“Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.”
Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)

“Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.”
Luigi Barzini

“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.”
Jane Austen

“And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod...“
John Collins Bossidy
‘Charles Wysocki's Americana Cookbook’

“All alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.”
George Saintsbury, English journalist (1845-1933)

“Acorns were good till bread was found.”
Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman (1561-1626)