A restaurant breathes new life into a hard-pressed Kansas farm town
On the high plains of Kansas, a beloved restaurant uses local products to help keep a shrinking farm town alive.
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Sometimes, a really good meal can lift your mood or make you see a place in a different light. In a remote and tiny town on the high plains of Kansas, it’s happening over and over almost every day. A restaurant there uses local products and high-end cooking to breathe new life into a hard-pressed farm town. Here’s Frank Morris from member station KCUR.
FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE: At rush hour in Sylvan Grove, Kan., a truck or a car or a tractor drives by every so often. The town’s been shrinking for most of the last century.
(SOUNDBITE OF DOOR CREAKING)
MORRIS: But inside one of the old limestone buildings, Fly Boy Brewery & Eats is filling up. Sandy Labertew and her husband are regulars.
SANDY LABERTEW: Well, it’s open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and Sunday mornings. And we eat here as often as we can. So we feel pretty good about this place.
MORRIS: The food’s good. Grant Wagner, the co-owner and chef here, worked his way up through top-notch restaurant
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