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Brian Schwartz
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A Dream Realized
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,...
An Okie Restaurant Rundown
Tulsa by Brian Schwartz • OKC by Amanda Jane Simcoe Fine Dining Summit Club, TulsaExtensive renovations in harmony with the club’s hallmark of quiet, understated...
Veldy’s Artisan Cheese and Wine
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)...
Caring Through Cuisine
One afternoon in early June 2019, Wyatt Rogers’ plane landed in Tulsa. He didn’t go to his newly rented apartment, nor did he stop anywhere...
Channeling Hemingway
Towards the end of 1921, Ernest Hemingway, having survived a war and a pandemic, arrived in Paris. During the next few years, he chatted with...
All Roads Lead to Tulsa
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...
Nātv
Some of Jacque Siegfried’s happiest childhood moments were her weekly cooking sessions with her father. “My dad is Shawnee,” says Siegfried, “and he taught me...
Bienvenido al Basque
In downtown Tulsa, the restaurant Basque is just down the street from Amelia’s – and yes, they’re related. You enter through a small retail market,...
Cherry Street Kitchen
She made crepes when she was ten, and she never left for school until she’d watched the early morning cooking shows. “Cooking has always been...
Balancing Many Plates
It’s brightly lit with lots of white – it’s minimal, blond wood gleaming. Gambill’s Wine and Coffee, a new tapas bar in Tulsa, is absolutely...
