A Proper Picnic

A Proper PicnicThe Empire is Crumbling, the pound is slipping and Twiggy is positively zaftig, but one thing will never change--the British knack with a picnic. Conceivably, the outing in the country has its genesis in the plowman's lunch, hearty victuals packed for field hands who worked too far from the manor to return for their midday repast. But it wasn't until the early 19th Century, when a group of London bucks formed the Picnic Society, that the word picnic came into fashion.British picni...