Any cookbook to which picnic is added to the title is a picnic cookbook. Even the first specifically themed picnic cookbook, Linda Larned’s 1915 One Hundred Picnic Suggestions, might be any cookbook.
New picnic cookbooks, each striving for some novelty every year, appear. Some are prettier than others. Some use photographs, line drawings, or copies of original art. Like the song from Gypsy, “You GottaHave a Gimmick.”
Beard, J., Cook It Outdoors. New York, 1941
Beard, James A., and Helen Evans Brown. The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery. New York, 1955
Beeton, I., Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management. London, 1859-1861
Black, Maggie, and Diedre.L. Faye, The Jane Austen Cookbook. London, 199r
Burns, John and Elizabeth Caton. The Urban Picnic. 2004
Claiborne, C., CraiClaiborne’s’s A Feast Made for Laughter1982, New York: 1882
David, Elizabeth. A Book of Mediterranean Food. London: 1950
David, Elizabeth, Summer Cooking. London: 1955, enlarged 1965
David, E. Of Pageants and Picnics. London: Penguin Books. 2005
David, E., An Omelette and a Glass of Wine, ed. J. Norman. New York: 1984
Fisher, M.F.K. The Gastronomical Me. New York, 1943
Fisher, M.F.K. An Alphabet for Gourmets. New York; 1989
Fisher, M.F.K. Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets. New York, 1946
Fisher, M.F.K. “The Pleasures of Picnics,” [1957], A Stew of a Story: An Assortment of Short Works by M.F.K. Fisher, J. Reardon, Editor. Emeryville, CA, 2006
Guerney, Jackie. National Trust Book of Picnics. 1982
Hazelton, Nika. The Picnic Book. New York: 1969
Hemingway, Joan, and Connie Maricich. The Picnic Gourmet: Over 30 Delectable Dishes for Every Kind of Picnic Meal. New York, 1975
Larned, Linda H. One Hundred Picnic Suggestions. New York, 1915
Leyel, C.F. Picnics for Motorists. London, 1936
McEevedy, Allegra. Enid Blyton, Jolly Good Food. Illustrations by Mark Beech. Holder’s Children’s Books, 2021
McNair, James K. The Complete Book of Picnics: A Portable Feast of Ideas for Preparing & Packing Delicious Snacks, Meals, Elaborate Feasts for Any Time, Any Place. San Francisco, 1979
Roden, Claudia. Picnics. London, 1981
Roden, Claudia. Everything Tastes Better Outdoors. New York, 1984
Toklas, Alice B. The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. New York, 1954. Reprint, 2004
Mrs. Southworth. The Motorists Luncheon Book. New York, 1923
Waters, A. Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook: In Collaboration with Linda P. Guenzel, Recipes Edited by Carolyn Dille, Designed and Illustrated by David Lance Gaines. New York: 1982