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Brian Schwartz
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A Fruitful Team Effort
There’s a grand, old rambling house nestled in verdant, sunny woods not far from Philadelphia. That’s where Ian Van Anglen’s grandparents live. “One of my...

Putting in the Work
It’s 5 a.m. and Tulsa’s downtown lies deserted. On most days, however, if you walk past the Tulsa Club – an Art Deco landmark that...

Squisito: Prossimo Ristorante
Black leather banquettes. Tables with starched white linens. Waiters in shirt and tie. Large chandeliers with crystals glittering. A prawn bigger than a dinner plate...

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...