Saturday, May 1, 2010

Picnic series, #1! - Jadebusen

This is Jonas together with our picnic case, napping at the Jadebusen dike (erotic name for a rather romantic area in Northern Germany where the sea has eaten a "busen" (translate: bosom) into the land). Featured: salmon pasta salad, aubergine dip, pistacchio dip, baguette, those two apples you see there. Red wine of course.

This is the first of my picnic series, a little celebration of the combination of two very good things: food and the outsides! While wandering the web for the actual meaning of this word I classically stumbled across a vast array of definitions. Well, who cares. Much better is the fact that there used to be the Picnic Society (unacademic wikipedia quote):
Early in the 19th century, a fashionable group of Londoners formed the 'Picnic Society'. Members met in the Pantheon on Oxford Street. Each member was expected to provide a share of the entertainment and of the refreshments with no one particular host. Interest in the society waned in the 1850s as the founders died.
Sad ending? No! At least in New York some people have revived this idea, meeting in Central Park around food and this simple, beautiful idea. Feels like this could be a good addition to things like Eat Ins, Flashmobs, or Surprise Dinners. Sounds like a plan?

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