National Picnic Month. From the National Day Calendar.
Picnic Food. Newspaper article from the Montana Stockman-farmer (August 15, 1951) courtesy of Chronicling America.
Fact Sheet on the Word "Picnic." From the Oxford English Dictionary.
The History of the Picnic. From History Today.
The Lynching Picnic. From the Jim Crow Museum. A history of the darker side of picnicking in the Jim Crow era.
Unpacking the Great English Picnic Podcast. From the BBC Food Programme.
The Wind in the Willows. Courtesy of Project Gutenburg. One of literatures most beloved picnics starts out this lovely book by Kenneth Grahame
How To Prepare A Perfect Picnic - Picnic Days (1935). From British Pathé video collection. How to prepare the perfect picnic for the warm days that you spent outside. Learn here how to make your side dishes look and taste amazing. Titles read: 'NOW THE Special Pathé Pictorial Section for the Ladies - Picnic Days'. Pathé Studio, London.
Picnics - Past And Future (1944). From British Pathé video collection. A historical picnic and a "modern" picnic.
The Mary Frances Cook Book: Adventures Among the Kitchen People (1912) by Jane Eayre Fryer. (From the preface) This book tells the story of Mary Frances, a little girl whose great ambition was to help her mother. So anxious was she to do this that even the humble Kitchen People became her teachers and instructors. They talked to her, a thing never heard of before; helped her over the hard places, and explained mysterious secrets she could never otherwise have under¬ stood.
Chapter XXI is "The Picnic" and includes a recipe for stuffed eggs and a trip to the zoo!
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