Say the word “picnic” and most people picture the same thing: a checkered blanket, a wicker basket, sandwiches cut in triangles, maybe a container of fruit salad sweating in the sun. It’s a nice image. It’s also incomplete. I grew up going to picnics that had no blanket at all. Instead there were long tablesContinue reading “More Than One Kind of Picnic: From Azorean Festa Feasts to BBQs and Tailgates”