Tag: cheese

When Josh Caffey was growing up, he ate a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches.  “We didn’t have lots of money,” he explains, “so we had it as a staple. We loved grilled cheese, but it gets old having the same sandwich every night. So we invented ways of having fancy grilled cheese sandwiches. Now everyone’s in on that act ......

The space once home to the Coach House, one of Oklahoma City’s most well-known fine dining establishments, has been welcoming guests under its new persona, The Hutch on Avondale, since 2016. Chef Kurt Fleischfresser of Western Concepts decided to shift to a more casual, relaxed concept, and it’s been well-received.  These days, the Hutch still offers an innovative, upscale dining...

Aragua de Barcelona is a remote and tranquil town on the eastern edge of Venezuela’s vast central prairie. If you’d been there some years back, you might have seen a cozy, welcoming restaurant named El Araguaney and, in the back, you’d have seen a young girl: Carolina Marino.  “As a kid, I used to wake up every morning and run...

Stealthily leaving her house long before dawn, the rural Texas grass still wet with dew, 17-year old Erica would meet her boyfriend (and future husband) Jared Veldhuizen and drive to the 5:15 a.m. milking at his parents’ dairy farm.  “The cows have it easy,” she recalls. “They roam in big pastures and they’d recognize us. They knew Jared was their...

The Eleanor OKC: Life is “la vie en rose” on Uptown 23rd Street.  Like myself, you might have missed the fact that just a couple of months before a global pandemic began threatening to close down the local dining and bar scenes, a trendy new OKC hotspot opened its doors. The space that not long ago used to be home to...

Bobby Benjamin slipped into Tulsa quietly and unknown. And yet, he’s the man about whom the Louisville Courier-Journal, a leading Kentucky newspaper, wrote: “He has taken his place among the local royal family of chefs, whose dining rooms are full of people for whom groveling to snare a seat isn’t beneath them.”  What those lucky enough to have dined at...

Just as you enter Tulsa’s Prossimo Ristorante from Cherry Street, you’ll pass a lounge with pink, upholstered sofas and chairs. Before the dinner rush one afternoon, you might see a rugged and confident man sprawled in one of those chairs, taking a quick break on a long work day. The salmon order just came in, and he had to...