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Brian Schwartz
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Fifty Years of Family
Picture it, 50 years ago. Tulsa was the oil capital of the world, and in the working-class neighborhoods that ringed the city, people knew that...
Miami Nights
Growing up in rural Cuba, Frank Valdes learned how to milk a goat; the value of family, hard work and respect; and, from his Spanish-born...
Always On the Go
One Friday evening, Joel Bein, with a boyish grin that deserves to be trademarked, accepted the applause of a well-heeled audience at a charity benefit...
Travels to a Hidden Kitchen
In the morning, Carla Grogg drives south on Mingo Road in Tulsa. She turns east at a taco shop, passes two small strip malls, a...
A Panoply of Spices
Growing up in Java, Indonesia, Indri Bahar did not learn her family’s traditional recipes at her mother’s knee … she was too busy getting her...
Teacher and Student
A few months ago, in the dead of winter, executive chef Kevin Snell took some of the staff of Amelia’s restaurant to Joe’s Farm in...
Down the Rabbit Hole
Down a back alley in Tulsa’s Blue Dome district is a ramshackle, late-night music venue also serving lunch and dinner. Finding the Rabbit Hole Bar...
Your Next Neighborhood Spot
Burly and amiable, in a checked shirt and jeans, he looks like the kind of cowboy ladies love. “I was 13 when I started work...
A Graceful Balancing Act
His tale is mesmerizing … idyllic. “I grew up in Manitou Springs, Colorado, right by Pikes Peak, but my best memories are summers at my...
A Global Creator
Many chefs acquire a passion for food early in life. Jamie Bissonnette seemed to be born with it. Perhaps his earliest memory is of climbing...
