The Urban Picnic: Being an Idiosyncratic and Lyrically Recollected Account of Menus, Recipes, History, Trivia, and Admonitions on the Subject of Alfresco Dining in Cities Both Large and Small

by John Burns

Paperback, 2005

Status

Call number

American -- BUR

Call number

American -- BUR

Publication

Arsenal Pulp Press (2005), Paperback, 352 pages

Description

Urban picnics are a hot foodie trend right now; from The Economist to Le Monde, food journalists and lovers the world around are jumping on the blanket. Like so many of us, they want to put their hectic city lives on hold and enjoy themselves--without having to head off into the hinterland. The Urban Picnic, whimsically subtitled Being an Idiosyncratic and Lyrically Recollected Account of Menus, Recipes, History, Trivia, and Admonitions on the Subject of Alfresco Dining in Cities Both Large and Small, is designed for modern gourmands and kitchen newcomers alike, to inspire them to introduce a little pleasure and picnickery into their lives. With an irreverent and highly opinionated history of the picnic, strange accounts from the 19th and 20th centuries, original illustrations, and over 200 recipes--many contributed from renowned chefs such as Nigella Lawson, Nadine Abensur, and Mark Bittman--it's the essential how-to (and how-not-to) for anyone who was ever looking for a tasty little morsel to eat under that tree that grows in Brooklyn. Two-colour throughout. Includes more than 100 illustrations. Recipes include: Barbecued Lemon Chicken (Anne Lindsay), Banana-Strawberry Layer Cake (Regan Daley), Mint Julep Peaches (Nigella Lawson), Chicken Liver Crostini (Umberto Menghi), and Ahi Tuna Salad with Green Papaya (Rob Feenie). "The great charm of this social device is undoubtedly the freedom it affords. . . . To eat cold chicken and drink iced claret under trees, amid the grass and the flowers." -Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art, 1869 "The latest fashion among young city-dwellers, providing a new advertising niche for manufacturers of luxury products, is the good old family picnic." -Le Monde "An upper-class English ritual traditionally confined to rural French life, the picnic has been rebranded." -The Economist… (more)

Physical description

352 p.; 8.9 inches

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