A July picnic with Ántonia Shimerda is among Jim Burden’s indelible youthful memories. It’s a pleasant platonic outing among friends shortly before Jim leaves for college in Lincoln. Significantly, it marks a turning point in Jim’s maturity, the end...
Memories are finicky; sometimes accurate, sometimes fuzzy, and sometimes fiction. Among some amusing memories of Stein and Toklas, there is some general mix-up regarding their picnic jaunts during 1917-1918 when they were living in Nimes and working for the American...
“How lovely it is to be free,” said Ursula, running swiftly here and there between the tree trunks, quite naked, her hair blowing loose. The grove was of beech trees, big and splendid, a steel-grey scaffolding of trunks and boughs, with level sprays of...
Josef Stalin and his wife, , on a picnic. the picnic is undated but Nadezhda Alliluyeva, his wife foreground left, died a suicide in 1932. The other picnickers are not identified. http://www.all-art.org/Visual_History/483-1.htm
This recipe is Ranhoffer’s response to Dickens’s Pickwick Papers and Sam Weller’s description of “weal pies.” Dickens dined at Delmonico’s in New York City while Ranhofer was chef de cuisine, but this item was not on the menu. Veal...
Bell often picnicked for entertainment and worked as Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner in Baghdad) and spy. Often, the two were indistinguishable. Once using the picnic as a deception, she and her companions took an official (not identified) to a lonely...
Situated on the bluff near St. Tropez overlooking the brilliant blue ocean, Bonnard’s picnic is one delightfully cheerful mood. Everything is gold, yellow, brown, and green around the woman, a man, a child, and a recumbent dog. It’s a palette suggesting happiness and...
The location of this early painting, The Picnic on the Grass, is unknown.
Smallwood’s picnic episode is not in Dumas, fils’s La Dame aux Camélias. According to Smallwood’s cinematic logic, however, romantic scenes in a natural setting are sure audience winners. The screen legend tells the obvious, “Love is the...
Jekyll’s recommendations for alfresco dining in “A Shooting-Party Luncheon” require forethought and preparation impractical for most of us. Her suggestions run low to high, from a wedge of cheese and a biscuit to a hotpot of game or poultry with celery, peeled...
