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VPR Cafe: The Many Diners Around Vermont

Melissa Pasanen
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Burlington Free Press
A slice of lemon meringue pie baked for Martha's Diner in Coventry.

Vermont has a number of diners scattered across the state, serving everything from coffee and pie to a turkey stuffing omelet.

The first diner in the U.S. was in Providence, Rhode Island says Melissa Pasanen, a contributor to the Savorvore Section of the Burlington Free Press. It was a place for people who worked odd-hours to get food.

Today diners are still popular places for people to go for an early breakfast or quick lunch on the road.
“They’re retro, they’re cool looking, they serve that old-school comfort food that most people at least once in a while like to indulge in,” Pasanen says.  

You can read more in Pasanen’s piece Find Martha’s For Old-School Diner Fare.

The VPR Café is made possible by Otter Creek Kitchenware in downtown Middlebury, offering over 70 lines of kitchenware, and by Kimball Brook Farm, organic milk and cream from Vermont grass-grazed cows.

Ric was a producer for Vermont Edition and host of the VPR Cafe.
Liam is Vermont Public’s public safety reporter, focusing on law enforcement, courts and the prison system.
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