Classic Diners of Maine
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Sarah Walker Caron
Sarah Walker Caron is an award-winning food writer, columnist and author based in Maine. She's been writing about food since before Pinterest, Twitter or Instagram existed. The author of five books, including The Super Easy 5-Ingredient Cookbook and One-Pot Pasta, Sarah believes that good food is for everyone and that anyone can learn to make it. But as much as she loves cooking, she also adores restaurants too--particularly ones where she can find a good plate of corned beef hash and lovely fluffy pancakes. By day, she's the senior editor (features) for the Bangor Daily News, as well as the editor of Bangor Metro and hellohomestead.com. She writes the "In Season Now" column for Bangor Metro magazine and formerly wrote "Maine Course," a weekly food column for the Bangor Daily News. By night, she's the blogger voice behind Sarah's Cucina Bella (www.sarahscucinabella.com), a thirteen-year-old food blog focusing on quick and easy from-scratch recipes for busy people, as well as food travel and good books. She also teaches journalism at the University of Maine and blogging at Husson University. She lives in the Bangor area with her two kids and her friendly black cat named Bippity.
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Classic Diners of Maine - Sarah Walker Caron
Introduction
The Cultural Significance of Diners
It’s near the clock tower—the literal center of life in Storybrooke, Maine. And there, inside the house that holds Granny’s Diner, locals meet for coffee, drop in for breakfast or take out, celebrate birthdays and mourn bad news. This hub of activity is where new folks are told to go to find a helping hand and a friendly place. It’s also where so many of the residents of Storybrooke begin their days.
Granny’s Diner is, truly, a welcoming center of activity. And while Storybrooke is fictional (you might recall it from the Once Upon a Time television show that aired on ABC), the significance of diners to local life is not. This could have easily been written about diners in towns across Maine that serve as cultural hubs.
Diners in Maine are familiar places, serving familiar menus and welcoming folks from all over. Since the 1930s, Moody’s Diner—a long, white building on a busy midcoast road—has been serving classic diner fare from its Waldoboro location. Today, it’s run by the same family who opened it so many decades ago.
In Biddeford, the familiar red-and-black dining car Palace Diner has served hungry folks since being delivered by the Pollard Company of Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1927. Sure, those faces, and their stories, have changed over time—gone are the days of millworkers seated at the counter for a quick, cheap, good breakfast. And here are the days of this little diner, which still has Ladies Invited
emblazoned on the outside, being written up by top publications as a must-try restaurant.
Moody’s Diner has been on Route 1 in Waldoboro since the 1930s.
At the cozy Deluxe Diner in Rumford, perhaps Maine’s best-kept diner secret, folks have been sliding open the diner door since the 1920s. With sixteen stools at the counter, alternatively covered with red and brown leather, the space is tight, but it works. These days, the sisters who run it have great rapport with each other and customers, greeting many of them by name and saying goodbye with things like "See you