Winnie-the-Pooh’s Picnic Cookbook, Inspired by A. A. Milne, purports to be for is a tongue-in-cheek adult cookbook masquerading in kid’s clothing. Picnics are loosely linked to Milne’s Pooh stories, and the picnics suggested are the likes of:...
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...
Vargas Llosa imagines Lima as a city of extremes. It’s beautiful if you “concentrate on the landscape and the birds, but it’s “ugly if you notice the piles of garbage festering as it “piles up on the outer edge of the Malecón and spills...
Bebe Meaders’ picnic favorites– Potato Salad & Deviled Eggs (with no measured portions) in the style of Marietta GA: Potato Salad Cook and peel 3 – 4 Irish potatoes. Chop finely about l/2 cup celery. Add l/4 (maybe l/3) cup of sweet pickles, cubed. ...
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...
Chess pie is a custard pie peculiar to the American south made with cornmeal. Pocock adapted Edna Lewis’s recipe. See Scott Peacock. The Gift of Southern Food New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 Ingredients: 1 nine-inch pie shell 4 large eggs, at room temperature 1½ cups...
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...
Dickens devotes the better part of the chapter “Blissful” to his text so that he shows how Copperfield is obsessed. “She was too bewildering,” David later explains, “To see her lay the flowers against her little dimpled chin, was to lose all presence of mind and power...
Kentridge likes copies of images, each a variation on reality fluctuations. Sometimes he makes triptychs, other times diptychs as in the Picnic/Panic etchings produced for Sleeping on Glass (1999). For the diptych Picnic/Panic, Kentridge contrasted cups and saucers on...
“Hot Grills” is a chapter that puns on picnic cookery and adultery; unpacking the picnic basket is a metaphor for undressing; eating is a metaphor for sexual intercourse. Picnics are he release from everyday routine and the displeasures of a sour academic...
Charles Coe’s poem “Picnic on the Moon,” Picnic on the Moon (1999), is not sci-fi. It’s a critique of human violence and enmity on Earth set against the Moon’s tranquility and quiet. The Moon sounds like the perfect picnic spot- a great place to bask...
Crace’s combination of an awful picnic and murder is not your average picnic. But Being Dead’s readers often find it so appealing that they search for Baritone Bay, where the central characters are murdered. There is no telling where they search because it...
In The Odyssey, the one-eyed giant Polyphemus is a cannibal who lives in a cave, but in Ethan Coen and Joel Coen’s O Brother Where Art Thou?, he’s at a picnic eating chicken, pickles, and drinking beer. The Coens claimed they did not read The Odyssey, but...
Pilcher’s Winter Solstice is about a Christmas picnic at which a pair of 60-somethings unexpectedly find love when it’s not expected. It’s heartwarming and sudsy! After much tribulation, Elfrida Phipps and Oscar Blundell, and friends gather at a...
Bruce Sargeant is a persona of Mark Beard. The picnic is a pleasantly simple: he is asleep, and she is awake, staring into space. A picnic basket sits idly in the far corner. Boy and Girl is large, 26.5 x 87 inches.
