The Urban Picnic is designed for modern gourmands and kitchen newcomers alike, to inspire them to introduce a little pleasure and picknickery into their lives. With an irreverent and highly opinionated history of the picnic, strange accounts from the 19th and 20th centuries, original illustrations, and over 200 recipes - many contributed from renowned chefs such as Nigella Lawson, Nadine Abensure and Mark Bittman - its the essential how-to (and how-not-to) for anyone who was ever looking for a tasty litle morsel to eat under a tree in the big smoke.