Alice Waters’s Picnic Recommendations (2001)

Alice Waters’s Picnic Recommendations (2001)

When Food & Wine magazine asked Alice Waters, “What would you eat for a summer picnic?” she suggested a take-out picnic because she did not want to cook, especially on a day off. Her picnic prepared by her favorite Japanese restaurant would be grilled...
Amanda Hesser’s Cooking for Mr. Latte (2004)

Amanda Hesser’s Cooking for Mr. Latte (2004)

Hesser’s “Fine Dining in the Sky,” from Cooking for Mr. Latte, A Food is a fussy gourmet’s admission that she packs a bulky in-flight bag as if it was a flying coach a picnic cooler. She wants us to believe that she for a flight to Spain, she...
Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)

Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)

Atkinson’s satirizes a Sunday School outing by making it a continuous set of missteps that leave the three Lennox children, Clifford, Babs, and Bunty, in such a rush to the train station that only two of them make it. The problem is that Nell Lennox, their...