Also aggressively un-local: a hearty sausage plate, with a new variety every week, served with an appealing and abundant platter of chopped onion, pickle, and pita.

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Stop in at Neptune Oyster on Salem Street for a lobster roll or a simple plate of fresh, local oysters.

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Get into the local swing of things and load your breakfast plate with tangy sheep's-milk cheese, plump olives, flavourful tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, home-made jam and freshly-baked crusty white bread or simit (a sesame-encrusted bread ring).

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Rick Doty, the president of the local United Auto Workers union, has a Barack Obama commemorative plate on his desk and big hopes for the stimulus.

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