About Us | Good Friends & Company | Delicious Artisan Foods


Here is some information about the people and organization of Good Friends and Company.

Among all the food webs around today, you have found a very small artisan company with a diverse background that can make you exceptional, delicious, American foods.

Artisan foods are simply better than gourmet foods because they are hand made by a real human. Gourmet foods have mostly become a name attached to nothing or no-one.

Not so with artisan foods--the name of the person who makes it is up front and so are the ingredients.

And so is the taste. That's why our food makes great food gifts to your good friends.

We make soups, deserts and breads, comfort foods and offer them to you or as gifts, all selected and created from the regions and seasons of North American food at its best--come on in and experience our treasures, your pleasures.

Four Seasons



Because our country and its food is so vast, our menu changes often and always with the seasons.

Each season we will present a new menu of special foods for your eating pleasure.

When you visit our store you can see how we explore each season for its fresh ingredients, special flavors and its special foods for healthy eating. This is one way we are different than other food webs and their gourmet foods.

Our chef, Herb Dreyer, creates a limited menu of the finest selections available from each season and shows you how they can be added to your table, your next dinner, your next celebration with family and friends.


Healthy eating at its best!

Great Food Gifts!



About Our Chef

Our Chef, Herb Dreyer, born in the small coastal town of Santa Barbara, California to a cooking family--his father was a professional cook and his mother was a Kentucky farm girl who learned to cook on a wood burning stove.

As a young boy, the chef has traveled over a large part of America. During these travels he was fortunate to sample seasonal American foods grown and cooked by a wide variety of family and friends. Growing up with this experience, like no other, provided the background for the chefs love of American foods--especially heirloom vegetables grown in small farm or a family garden.


From there it was all up. The chef was educated at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. When he was a teenager he wrote a book on zoology and while science is important to the chef, his love of cooking re-found him--by accident!

When he did catch back up with his love of cooking he never looked back--it was like coming home (well, maybe a few looks back).
His food has been reviewed by some of the finest and toughest food critics and , of course, his family and customers.

We serve artisan foods for healthy eating at their best and all our reviewers say our food is "delicious".

Each selection is hand-made from all natural ingredients.

Bring Home
Good Friends & Company

With careful attention to packaging we deliver to your home when you are ready.

Ready? Ready to enjoy some of the best American food available today!

We want to show you how eating well and eating healthy American food goes beyond gourmet food found on other food webs--and can go hand in hand. Each item you select comes from one or more of the diverse and distinct regions of America.

So, join us in our journey through the seasons and special celebrations as we search for the best of the seven regions of America:

The Far West, Southwest, Mountain States, The Mid-West and Great Plains, New England, The Middle Atlantic and The South.


Enjoy Seasonal Food at its Best

You may want to   Specials added often!

You will find it easy to find, select and enjoy our artisan foods, to bring them home and discover the authentic taste of American Foods--or re-discover.  You may want to consider our selection of favorite samplers as gifts. In fact, that's why we continue to feel so good about cooking  even after a dozen years in business.

We would love to send you some of our fresh seasonal foods that really deliver delicious taste.  But wait. When you order you should know that your order has not been made.  We only make to order, and it can take a while longer than you may be accustomed.  Made to order: It's worth it.

Our selection changes with the seasons and the whims of the chef, but it's always made the freshest ingredients and the freshest ideas for each of the four seasons. Try our food, it's simply delicious!

Where ever you may be, your selections are just a click away--remember what the critic said, "tastes great!".

The reasons are simple:  you know who cooks the food,  all your food is hand made with real--natural, healthy ingredients and never, never has anything artificial--what you get is the real taste of real American cuisine made by a real person and that is worth eating and paying for.

Consider what Michael Pollen, the noted journalist, said, "High-quality food is better for your health. When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest--the added sugars and fats in processed foods." You can read more about Pollens' comments in our Food News and Issues page.

Remember: Fake stuff is cheap because it is most often made with ingredients laced with chemical flavors that make us fat--read on and find out why we can deliver the taste and the nutrients worth eating.

Our chef, Herb Dreyer, creates a limited menu of the finest selections available from each season and shows you how they can be added to your table, your next dinner, your next celebration for your home food delivery. Our chef is critically acclaimed by some really tough reviewers.

Fresh Ingredients

With careful attention to packaging we deliver to your home when you are ready. Ready? Ready for our home food delivery service and Ready to enjoy some of the best from the seasons and regions of America available today!

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