In her book Picnic, author Claudia Roden describes the pleasures of outdoor eating as offering moments in nature “as ephemeral as they are intense.” The pleasure of picnics may last only the length of the meal, but the intensity of a picnic experience, whether in a leafy park or garden, on a rocky beach or even on a roadside, enchant like anchors of hap…
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