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When
Summer Comes, Can Picnicking Be Far Behind?
Summers are made for picnics, aren’t they? Everyone thinks so. In the 1600s, the French came up with the term pique-nique for casual lunches eaten outdoors — often as part of an excursion in balmy weather and usually in parks or other scenic locations — but the concept is immemorial. What else but a picnic could Omar Khayyam have had in mind when he wrote in The Rubaiyat, “A loaf of bread, a jug of wine / And thou beside
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me in the Wilderness?”
