The Urban Picnic Being the Idiosyncratic and Lyrically Recollected Account of Menus, Recipes, History, Trivia, and Admonishons on the Subject of Al Fresco Dining in Cities Both Large and Small
| Author/creator | Burns, John Author |
| Other author | Caton, Elisabeth Author |
| Other author | Lyon, Jennifer Illustrator |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press Minneapolis : Consortium Book Sales & Distribution [Distributor] |
| Description | 352 p. ill 09.000 x 07.400 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation <div><p>“The latest fashion among young city-dwellers, providing a new advertising niche for manufacturers of luxury products, is the good old family picnic.”—<i>Le Monde</i></p><p>“An upper-class English ritual traditionally confined to rural French life, the picnic has been rebranded.”—<i>The Economist</i></p><p>“The great charm of this social device is undoubtedly the freedom it affords. . . . To eat cold chicken and drink iced claret under trees, amid the grass and the flowers.”—<i>Appleton’s Journal of Literature, Science, and Art</i>, 1869</p><p>Urban picnics are a hot foodie trend right now; from<i>The Economist</i>to<i>Le Monde</i>, food journalists and lovers the world around are jumping on the blanket. Like so many of us, they want to put their hectic city lives on hold and enjoy themselves—without having to head off into the hinterland.<i>The Urban Picnic</i>is designed for modern gourmands and kitchen newcomers alike to inspire them to introduce a little pleasure and picnickery into their lives. With an irreverent and highly opinionated history of the picnic, strange accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, original illustrations and over 200 recipes—many contributed from renowned chefs such as Nigella Lawson, Mark Bittman, Regan Daley and Bob Blumer—it’s the essential how-to (and how-not-to) for anyone who was ever looking for a tasty little morsel to eat under that tree that grows in Brooklyn. Two-color throughout.</p><p>Recipes include:</p><p>Barbecued Lemon Chicken (Anne Lindsay)<br />Banana-Strawberry Layer Cake (Regan Daley)<br />Mint Julep Peaches (Nigella Lawson)<br />Chicken Liver Crostini (Umberto Menghi)<br />Ahi Tuna Salad with Green Papaya (Rob Feenie)</p></div> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781551521558 |
| ISBN | 1551521555 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781551521558 |
| Stock number | 1551521555 00305535 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |