A Picnic is an Incantation

Picnic as ceremony & a recipe for a Forest & Meadow Galette

At a picnic. The poses and positions chose themselves in this snap — the picnic’s ceremony takes control

On Sunday, the first through-and-through sunny day of spring, we had a picnic. We packed bags with blankets, glasses, tin plates, knives and forks; filled a cool bag with beer; carried metal bowls of taramasalata, hummus, labneh, quail’s eggs, pickle…