Feast of the Day, 23 April

I'm disinclined to have a Feast of the Day today, because nothing was especially exciting. One book I read hardly mentioned food at all, the other just wasn't very interesting about it. Except for this: every pic-nic (yes, they hyphenated it!) that these children went on featured them starting a fire and then roasting apples. I don't really get this - it seems that part of the value of apples (aside from yumminess) is their thirst-quenching, very handy on a pic-nic! Starting a fire and waiting around for apples to roast seems very strange. Not the weirdest thing by far about The Great Elm, but it didn't help any.