What’s on the menu? Hearty, home-cooked meals and desserts, of course. Bring your appetite but not a lot of cash. Diners are the true American eating place.

Join Dr. Tom Shaker for an exploration of all-things diner. Hear how Walter Scott’s late night, walkup lunch cart in Providence in the 1870s inspired a nationwide craze, how to decode the diner lingo used by counter staff to place orders for food, and about some of the Ocean State’s most iconic diners.

Dr. Tom Shaker is a radio DJ, documentary filmmaker, expert on Rhode Island jazz, and MC of the Warwick History Quiz Show.

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