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Picnics
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Published 2004
Picnics are leisurely outdoor social gatherings at which people meet to eat, at tables or on the ground, and socialize. American picnics are known by other names such as excursions but more often by association with foods: clambakes, corn roasts, corn boilings, oyster roasts, fish fries, wiener roasts, bean suppers, cookouts, and barbecues.
American food critic James Beard distinguishes picnicking from simply eating alfresco. In Menus for Entertaining (1965, revised 1997), he stresses that a picnic requires that you travel somewhere to eat, even if you eat while traveling in a car.
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