Bee Wilson is the author of 'The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen' (Fourth Estate).

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Picnicking with the Impressionists

Comparing the spreads on offer in scenes by Manet and Monet suggests that eating outdoors offered the artists a very particular kind of freedom

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