Picnic season this year is happily lingering, and better now the blazes of early August have subsided. The Enid Blyton ideal of a picnic — hampers, home-cooked treats, lashing of ginger beer, neckerchiefs (probably) — is mostly a long-dead idea, at least for anyone with a job peskily getting in the way of endless baking.
But what are the supermarkets offering, and is any of it any good? Here, we asked the biggest names to send their suggested spreads to see whose quiche takes the biscuit — or something like that — and who’s on a roll with their Scotch eggs.
