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Brian Schwartz
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The Perfect Collaboration
Most people around Oklahoma grew up eating barbecue, but Justin Carroll wasn’t one of them – his family couldn’t afford it. After he got steady...
A Culinary Love Language
On a recent Saturday night in autumn, eager dinner guests filled a normally quiet coffeehouse – Foolish Things, on the fringes of downtown Tulsa. A...
Channeling Augustina
Almost a century ago, a little girl named Augustina Florentino lived in a tiny, sun-kissed village in Puebla, Mexico, right near the Oaxacan border. Her...
Holé Molé
Drive way down south to Brownsville, Texas, and then another thousand miles south through Mexico, and you’ll reach a fabled land of green valleys, rugged...
Preserving a Family Legacy
“I grew up in a typical Italian household,” says Sonny Dalesandro. “There was always food cooking, and I was always being asked to help out.”...
Red Light Chicken
You may remember Allison Goss from her days as a painter and conservator at the Philbrook, but before that, she worked in restaurants most of...
A Seed that Blossomed
There are over a million restaurants in the United States. Each year, the James Beard Foundation chooses the 20 best to compete for its Outstanding...
To Jim, Love Johnna
Once upon a time, in those halcyon days when the war had just ended and Tulsa was the Oil Capital of the World, a man...
Redefining Fine Dining
There are two restaurants, two cafés, twelve concession stands and three event centers at the Tulsa Zoo. Each day, Cameron Werry is responsible for every...
Eiffel Tower Grilled Cheese Co.
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...
