Anabel Loyd has been lucky enough to eat picnics in a great many places. She has been collecting picnic stories to add to her own store for some time and thinks that they deserved sharing and might whet new picnic appetites. When not consuming food in as many countries as possible, Anabel writes for the Indian Telegraph in Calcutta and does a travel blog aimed at those who would like to escape well-worn tourist paths.

Foreword; Picnic Crumbs; Introduction; First Picnics; Equipment and Essentials; Boating Feats and Follies; Picnics and Romance; Home, Work and Tradition; On Trains and Aeroplanes; Battles, Rations and Picnics in the Field; Abroad, and Travel Food; Agnes Jekyll, Hilda Leyel and other Cooks' Excursions; Social Graces and Summer Seasons; Provisions; Royal and Imperial; Disasters, Discomforts and Emergency Rations; School Food; A Finale of Sandwiches and Filling Stuff; En Fin; Bibliography