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Diners have been a part of our family for a very long time. As student with very little money, Jack’s Great-Grandfather Norman ate two meals a day at a diner while studying at MIT. For a dime he was able to get a meal, a cup of coffee, and a piece of pie. My family still laughs at my earliest diner moment. At the age of three I was ejected from the Sherwood Diner in CT for getting my fingers stuck in a jukebox. It had to be taken apart by a technician, and I screamed the entire time. As a high school student I fell in love with the classic American Diner after reading Charles Panati’s wonderful account of their history inThe Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. I liked their uniquely American history and menu, their differing styles architecture, and their working-class appeal.

While at boarding school I spent much of my free time with my nose in a book while eating toast and drinking bottomless cups of coffee at Wilson's Diner in Waltham and at the much-fabled Tasty in Cambridge. In college, during my frequent trips from Colgate to the other side of NY State I ate at every single diner along Rt. 17 (at that time there were more than a dozen). On my first weekend away with Deena we ate at the Vernon Diner in CT and began our long-standing tradition of making important lists on placemats. Quacks in Madison, NY. The Famous Roscoe. The Agawam.

I love diners. And when Jack was born I decided that I would embark on a mission to take him (and very soon, his baby brother) to every classic American Diner still in existence. Here are our adventures…

sign Miss Worcester read about our adventures at the Miss Worcester on 11/25/2007