Jay Rayner, one of her successors in the role, writes that Grigson "established ... newspaper's reputation as a publication that was serious about food". Nigel Slater, another successor, considers her writing "legendary". She held the position until 1990. Grigson and her husband would spend three months a year in Trôo—sometimes visiting twice a year—writing there and at their home in Broad Town, Wiltshire. While in France she "delighted in proving to ... [her French friends that British cooking could be every bit as good as theirs", according to her daughter. Her articles in "The Observer" provided the basis of further books; in 1971 her columns provided material for "Good Things", which she introduced by saying it "is not a manual of cookery, but a book about enjoying food". Harold Wilshaw, the food writer for "The Guardian", thought it a "magnificent book ... worth the money for the chapter on prunes alone" "The Times" considers it "perhaps the most popular of her books". Nika Hazelton, reviewing it for "The New York Times" writes that it is "a delight to read and to cook from. The author is literate, her food interesting but unaffected". The chef and food writer Samin Nosrat lists "Good Things" as one of "the classic cookbooks that shaped my career as a chef and writer", alongside "Jane Grigson's Fruit Book" and "Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book".