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Full Throttle

Stroll any evening into Local Bison in downtown Tulsa, through the crowds at the bar, and head for the kitchen. There, you’ll find Nick Andoe,...

Radish

Walking into Radish is like entering the home of a kindly and slightly eccentric relative – it’s a fun place to be.  And, as with...

For Dorothy

Daniel Auffenberg grew up in that glorious Tulsa neighborhood that stretches east from the Philbrook. He has many fond memories of his childhood, but his...

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...