Quote of the Day (Ogden Nash)

“Certainly every schoolboy knows that famous remark made by the late Mark Hanna:
‘I care not who makes our Presidents as long as I can eat in Savannah.’”—Ogden Nash, “Foreword” to Harriet Ross Colquitt’s The Savannah Cook Book (1933)
(Anything this “schoolboy” of the second half of the 20th century learned about Mark Hanna had nothing to do with food. Maybe my older—or more Savannah-centric—readers can verify the “remark” allegedly made by this Gilded Age political handler? Whatever. As one who has eaten in this fair Southern city, I fully endorse the sentiment.)