Urban Picnic

“The latest fashion among young city-dwellers, providing a new advertising niche for manufacturers of luxury products, is the good old family picnic.”—Le Monde

“An upper-class English ritual traditionally confined to rural French life, the picnic has been rebranded.”—The Economist

“The great charm of this social device is undoubtedly the freedom it affords. . . . To eat cold chicken and drink iced c...