Madden’s picnic in a glen is a short episode designed to show how Queen Victoria’s dependence on her gillie John Brown’s guardianship. *He ensures the Queen’s privacy by chasing snooping journalists. After Albert’s death,...
Bad day, worse picnic! Featured Image: Sue Williams. Picnic (from Whitney Biennial Portfolio). Lithograph. (1997)
Spielberg’s Jaws begins with an evening beach party on the beach. The suspense is thrilling, and the result for Chrissie is tragic: eaten by a great white shark! A picnic party on the beach also begins Jurassic Park: The Lost World, but this time, it’s suspenseful but...
Following Beeson generally follows Lee’s Cider with Rosie and gives us Slad’s church choir’s annual picnic, a daylong outing to Weston-super-Mare on the Bristol Channel. Lee narrates this film, and since his memoir is largely fiction, whatever Beeson...
If you’re planning a picnic for witches, you must feed them pork because “witches loves pork meat”—at least, this is the authoritative recommendation of Minerva, the Voodoo spiritualist in Clint Eastwood’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. When Minerva is...
All hell might break loose. Earth may be obliterated, but A. J. Frost and his sweetheart Grace Stamper ignore their food preferring sex foreplay instead. “Do you think,” asks Grace, “that anyone else in the world is doing this very same thing at the same moment?”...
Among ruined picnics, Kingsolver’s Congo picnic ranks high. It’s a highlight of misadventure in The Poisonwood Wood Bible, a novel the name of which is derived from a misunderstanding of the local language. Reverend Nathan Price says, “Tata Jesus is...
McEwan’s menu for Joe Rose and Clarissa Mellon’s picnic is black olives, mixed salad, mozzarella, focaccia, and white wine, specifically Daumas Gassac, perhaps the author’s favorite. Roger Michel’s adaption Enduring Love (2004) substitutes...
Ian McEwan’s <em>Enduring Love</em> (1998) McEwan’s menu for Joe Rose and Clarissa Mellon’s picnic is black olives, mixed salad, mozzarella, focaccia, and white wine, specifically Daumas Gassac, perhaps the author’s favorite. Roger...
Russell Kaye’s Tailgating on Ken Johnson’s Nissan is a picnic on wheels that gives new meaning to the expression of lighting a fire under the hood. For this “grillz- on-the-hood,” the menu is bacon and eggs fried on a saw blade; burgers cooked...
