Reviews

The Picnic: Recipes and Inspiration from Basket to Blanket by Andrea Slonecker, Jen Stevenson, Marnie Hanel

joabroda's review

adventurous fast-paced

4.0

My Cook Book Club pick for June. Who doesn't love a good picnic?

These are not recipes for spur of the moment picnics, but a perfect for a planned event that you want to be special. Besides the recipes, the author offers tips on carrying  vessels for food and games to play.

I am making Melon Gazpacho for the pot-lock meeting

toad_maiden's review

3.0

Very cute, and the recipes were better than I thought they would be. This is definitely a novelty cookbook, but it's exemplary in that category. Perhaps too specific for me to warrant adding it to my collection, but charming nonetheless.

ssejig's review

3.0

I heard about this book on "The Splendid Table." It is a nice book with some fun recipes. I don't know that it's worth keeping and taking up space on my shelf but a fast and fun read.

knel15's review

3.0

This book is a very sweet, clever idea. Picnics are quintessential summer and reading this made me want to pack a basket right away. The illustrations are very sweet and a lot of the recipes look delicious. All aspects of a picnic are considered, from choosing the right blanket and location, to creating the perfect menu. For the really advanced picnic host, there is even instructions for bringing ice cream floats. I would say that it does make picnicking look like a lot of work, but it is full of great ideas for outside dining, if you have a bit of time on your hands.

I got this title from NetGalley and gave it an honest review.