DINER DIN
Reichl states that the Melrose eatery Johnny Rocket’s is “so . . . perfectly detailed that it looks like it has sprung out of a Norman Rockwell painting.â€
It seems doubtful that Rockwell would have painted waitress Fritze McKamey wearing a digital watch, as pictured in Iris Schneider’s accompanying photograph.
We can wallow in nostalgia, but we can’t go back.
BOB LAYTON
Westwood
