Eaten, No.26: Picnics

Eaten is a new, beautifully designed print magazine focused on everything food history. Three times a year we publish a new volume filled with a cornucopia of old recipes, enlightening gastronomic essays, and the fascinating and forgotten tales of the people who have grown, cooked, and enjoyed all things edible over the centuries.
Our contributors and readers are a cohort of passionate journalists, historians, and gastronomers eager to celebrate the past and present of what we eat.

In this issue:

EATEN No. 26: Picnics is a delightful wander through the park, featuring stories from dining al fresco with the ancestors in China to eating along the Appalachian Trail to the life and times of your gingham picnic blanket.  (Summer 2026)

Contributors include:

• Anna Ansari on the golden age of the American rest stop

• Vera Armus on the enduring traditions of Argentine asado

• Sanchia Lovell on the Páneurópai Piknik and the Cold War

• Rachel Signer on Édouard Manet’s obscene picnic and the legacy of eating outside in art