Picnic cookbooks are relatively new. The first in 1915 was Linda Larned’s One Hundred Picnic Suggestions.
Like the song from Gypsy, “You Gotta Have a Gimmick.,” new cookbooks, each striving for novelty, appear every year. Some are prettier than others. Some use photographs, line drawings, or copies of original art.
Beard, J., Cook It Outdoors (1941)
Beard, James A., and Helen Evans Brown. The Complete Book of Outdoor Cookery (1955)
Beeton, I., Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1859-1861)
Black, Maggie, and Diedre L. Faye, The Jane Austen Cookbook (1995)
Burns, John and Elizabeth Caton. The Urban Picnic (2004)
Craig Claiborne. A Feast Made for Laughter (1982)
David, Elizabeth. A Book of Mediterranean Food 1950)
David, Elizabeth, Summer Cooking (I955, enlarged 1965)
David, E. Of Pageants and Picnics (2005)
David, E., An Omelette and a Glass of Wine, ed. J. Norman (1984)
Fisher, M.F.K. The Gastronomical Me (1943)
Fisher, M.F.K. An Alphabet for Gourmets (1989)
Fisher, M.F.K. Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets (1946)
Guerney, Jackie. National Trust Book of Picnic 11982)
Hazelton, Nika. The Picnic Book (1969)
Hemingway, Joan, and Connie Maricich. The Picnic Gourmet: Over 30 Delectable Dishes for Every Kind of Picnic (1975)
Larned, Linda H. One Hundred Picnic Suggestions (1915)
Leyel, C.F. Picnics for Motorists (1936)
McEevedy, Allegra. Enid Blyton, Jolly Good Food. Illustrations by Mark Beech (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 (1979)
Roden, Claudia. Picnics (1981)
Roden, Claudia. Everything Tastes Better Outdoors (1984)
Toklas, Alice B. The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook (1954)
Mrs. Southworth. The Motorists’ Luncheon Book (1923)
Waters, Alice. Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook: In Collaboration with Linda P. Guenzel, Recipes Edited by Carolyn Dille, Illustrated by David Lance Gaines (1982)