The Sun Is Calling – The New York Times

It’s June. The weather forecast is starting to look like summer, and I’m looking forward to my favorite sunny-day activity: eating outside.

I can think of few things more leisurely than dining sprawled out on the grass or around a picnic table. Grazing on potato chips and watermelon. Sharing salads out of Tupperware. Downing burgers seconds after they come off the grill.

Or at least, that’s what meals outside should be like. It’s a lot less pleasant if you’re swatting away mosquitoes…