Parisian Picnic

Where to Find the Most Mouthwatering Treats to Fill Your Wicker Basket

Has any meal looked as relaxingly lush as the one depicted by Édouard Manet in his painting Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe? The cool shade, food spilling from a wicker basket onto their blanket, the picnickers who appear to be caught in flagrante in their afternoon saturnalia. The painting hangs in the Musée d’Orsay, and, because the figures seemed to be saying “Join us!” in their lunchtime, that sacrosanct pause in the French day, it is a call to put together one’s own Parisian picnic. Filling your basket with the best ...