The Herman Miller Picnic Posters, Part Two

Inspiration for a Virtual Picnic Featuring Dream Guests at any Party: Substack Food Writers

This week more picnic guests arrived at my virtual bash and brought all sorts of summery foods with them. I’ve paired their offerings with some of the iconic Herman Miller picnic posters designed by Stephen Frykholm from 1970-1989.

There is also a fantastic video about the creation of the posters featuring Mr. Frykholm that you must see if you love these posters as much as I do. View: Here

Let’s Eat! Picnic Pairings

Picnic Poster by Stephen Frykholm for Herman Miller, 1979

Last year in honor of Mother’s Day, talented and generous food writers

Anne Byrn

of Between the Layers and Leah Koenig of

The Jewish Table

traded places to make each of their mother’s chicken recipes. So good!

Photo courtesy of Anne Byrn

Trading Places: Her Mom's Fried Chicken & My Mom's Chicken and Dumplings

Picnic Poster by Stephen Frykholm for Herman Miller, 1980

Fresh Mint and Ginger Lemonade from the brilliant Rachel Phipps is a perfect summer drink. Rachel’s newsletter,

ingredient by Rachel Phipps

has some of the most beautiful food anywhere.

Photo courtesy of Rachel Phipps

Fresh Mint.

Picnic Poster by Stephen Frykholm for Hetman Miller, 1978

This poster reminded me of the pink champagne cake at the Madonna Inn that the wonderful food writer Ruth Stroud

Ruthtalksfood Newsletter

featured so beautifully last year.

Photo courtesy of Ruth Stroud

'The Best Cake I Ever Had'

The very first Picnic Poster by Stephen Frykholm for Herman Miller, 1970

The gifted and witty Boulanger, Writer and ‘Breaducator’

Andrew Janjigian

of

Wordloaf

wrote about the Herman Miller posters last year, and also treated us to an entire ‘Corn Week’ with recipes.

Friday Bread Basket 9/16/22

A big thank you to all of my lovely Substack picnic guests over the past two weeks.

I’ll have a book update later this month. The topic: Bertha Palmer and The Girl Bosses of 1893. The planning with author and book coach Leigh Stein for the upcoming post was a blast, so I hope you’ll join in as a paid subscriber and follow along with my book proposal process and progress.

Leigh and Jolene: Serious Research at my brother’s restaurant in Chicago

See you soon!

Jolene