Effective picnicking isn't as easy as it looks in the Williams Sonoma catalog. If you bring a lot of plates and utensils, it means a lot to carry and a lot to clean up. If you stick with finger foods, you're likely to get messy.

Enter The Toothpicnic. Cut every food into bite-sized morsels and you can eat a whole meal with a toothpick. The Toothpicnic will be your friend from steak to cake.

There's more on The Toothpicnic, and a million other techniques for making your world taste better, in my forthcoming book EAT MORE BETTER: How to Make Every Bite More Delicious, now available for pre-order!