Tag: Brian Schwartz

Order spaghetti at Arduini’s in south Tulsa and the owner, Judy Trout – nee Arduini – rolls a big ball of dough, carefully pounds it long and flat and slices it into thin strips with a mandoline. Then it goes in the pot. As for the sauce... “I’ve been making that since 8 a.m.,” she says. “I learned by watching...

When you’re far from home, tiny memories become precious. “My whole house looks like a jungle,” says Raqaun Bennett, executive chef at Bin 35 in Tulsa’s Brookside. “There’s a lemon tree in the living room, elephant ears, anything that reminds me of the tropics.” Bennett grew up in Kingshill, a rural neighborhood in St. Croix, not far from the University of...