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Camille Torres
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Spicing up the State
Though Patrick Williams, executive chef at Oklahoma City’s Vast and Flint restaurants, hails from Kansas, his food is rooted in the Sooner State. “People don’t...
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Head of the Glass
[dropcap]Amid[/dropcap] sweltering heat and cacophony, beauty is created in a 2,000-square-foot studio in Tulsa’s Brady Arts District. Kenneth Gonzales, project director at Tulsa Glassblowing School,...
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A Man With a Plan
[dropcap]In[/dropcap] 2005, Gerard Clancy, M.D., learned a sobering fact. The life expectancy of a north Tulsan was 14 years fewer than it was for someone...
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Blazing Trails
[dropcap]Step[/dropcap] in any motor home, and you’ll see elements of design and engineering that stem from Miami, Oklahoma-based Newell Coach, a family-run company that manufactures,...
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Chef From the West
[dropcap]For[/dropcap] Chef James Shrader of Tulsa’s Palace Cafe, what began as a necessity evolved into a lifelong passion and career. “My mom was a single...