BON APPETIT

摘要

"You are a food scientist. Why can't you use science to liven up our picnics?" asked my wife Wendy, tired of being upstaged by neighbouring picnickers. It was summer and we were at an open-air concert, the kind where the ticket reads: "Bring a picnic and chairs". This is not as innocent as it sounds. The picnics in our part of rural Somerset are competitive affairs, with candelabra and haute cuisine. Wendy, it seems, had had enough of prawn sandwiches on a tartan rug.