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Hardie Grant is serving up Max’s Picnic Book: An Ode to the Art of Eating Outdoors by Max Halley and Benjamin Benton.
Commissioning editor Eve Marleau acquired world rights from the Soho Agency, for publication on 18th March 2021.
The Max’s Sandwich Book authors have crafted “an ode to the art of eating on the hoof, with a raucous reinvention of what can be classed as ‘picnic food’. With 16 themed menus told through the eyes of their picnicking heroes, such as Hunter S Thompson, Dolly Parton, Mary Berry and Snoop Dogg, the reader will be left with a broader idea of what a picnic truly is. Irreverent, eccentric and endlessly entertaining, Max’s Picnic Book will help make every meal outdoors an occasion worth celebrating.”
Marleau said: “Working with Max and Ben has been inspiring, joyful and hilarious in equal measure; it is a cookbook like no other. When I commissioned them, Max told me that he wanted to ‘blow the bloody doors off the stereotype of picnicking’. And he really has.”
Halley commented: “The poor old picnic has become a chintzy pastiche! Originally quite a rock 'n’ roll affair, it now belongs to London’s eye-wateringly expensive food emporiums and Enid Bloody Blyton etc, but it's not theirs, it’s ours, and we want it back!”