num_pages: 208
description: Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal set on a blanket usually in the middle of the day featuring a hamper filled with tasty morsels and perhaps a bottle of wine but historically picnics came in many forms served any time of the day. This first culinary history reveals rustic outdoor dining in its more familiar and unusual forms the history of the word itself the cultural context of picnics and who arranged them and most important the gastronomic appeal. Drawing on various media and literature painting music and even sculpture. Levy provides an engaging and enlightening history of the picnic.
language: English
title: The Picnic: A History
publisher: AltaMira Press