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.”

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