The Urban Picnic

“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 “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,