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Picnic Baskets are Classic
Our picnic
baskets and ThePicnicStore.com have been featured in The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, Bon Appétit and Family Circle Magazine.
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These picnic baskets will help you enjoy your day
off from work whether you picnic in the park with friends, loved ones, or
even that significant other! |
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The Catalina Riviera Basket |
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$149.99 |
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 Our
picnic baskets can help make your
picnic happen anywhere. From our picnic baskets and
picnic backpacks to our
picnic blankets. We have what you need to make any picnic, anywhere, perfect.
Before we had our modern concept of picnics where we used
specifically-designed picnic baskets, the use of
woven baskets to carry food to
eat in an outdoor setting had indeed been around for hundreds of years.
From
Medieval times to the early part of our century the concept of eating
in an outdoor setting and the use of picnic baskets existed when hunting parties
small and large would take along food and drink to enjoy while taking a break
from the hunt. These picnic baskets were built with hinged lids to cover the
top. Gaston de Foiz, in a work entitled
Le Livre de Chasse (1387), gave
a detailed description of this sort of event in France.
Picnic Baskets for Two Is A Beautiful Thing!
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| Picnic baskets for two (or four) are an
excellent choice for that romantic date. An excellent wine, terrine, pate,
cheese, fruit and baguette picnic would be a special moment.
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The actual word 'picnic' derives from the French verb piquer (pee
kay), which has the same root in Latin as the English word 'pick'. A 1692
edition of  Origines de la Langue Françoise de
Ménage mentions 'piquenique' and marks the first appearance of the word in
print.
The French penchant at that time while at dinner parties or among the general
populace was for exemplifying wittiness and for rhyming prose and by coupling
'piquer' with 'nique' (a term used to describe something small and of little
value), the double barrelled word "piquer-nique" (peeka neek) was created. This
term became used to signify a fashionable social gathering or a party where
everyone would contribute by bringing some of their own food and drink. It is
only more recently that the term has become synonymous with an outdoor meal
brought in a "picnic basket".
Ironically the first french events were really more like "Pot Luck" suppers
and held indoors. The transition to outdoor gatherings for groups to more
intimate moments between friends and or lovers occured much later. |
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