A proper picnic, unpacked.

“There are few things so pleasant as a picnic lunch eaten in perfect comfort.”
So proclaimed playwright W. Somerset Maugham, and we heartily agree. Few pleasures in life trump the joy of eating outside, hands and hearts full with good food and good company.
It’s harder to find agreement on what makes a proper picnic, however.
An early description is given by the ‘Pic Nic Society’; a group of young Francophiles enamoured by fashionable “pique-niques’ brou