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Ripe Now!
This month is the perfect time to enjoy these three summer staple ingredients! Article and Photography by Amanda Jane Simcoe If you are not a fan of the extreme heat, you probably have a few silver linings you look forward to during the hot summer months. July and August give us a bounty of produce, and three of my favorites are tomatoes, peaches, and watermelon. I hope you will enjoy these recipes to help you make the most of the bounty from your home garden or local farmer's market. A...
August 2020
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Super Cao Nguyen: The Coolest Grocery Store You Might Not Know
9 reasons why this Asian District staple has been drawing local chefs for more than four decades. Article by Amanda Jane Simcoe | Photography by Brandon Burt At 41 years old, Super Cao Nguyen is the oldest International Grocery Store in Oklahoma City Tri and Kien Long purchased the store in 1979 in its original location at 24th and Military Avenue, just down the street from where it currently stands. Refugees from Vietnam, they spent the next two decades expanding their family business...
July 2020
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The Blue Doors at Tenkiller
There are no "summertime blues" at this kid and pet-friendly escape. Article and Photography by Amanda Jane Simcoe Just a short two-hour drive from Oklahoma City, just north of Gore, OK, you'll find one of my favorite local getaways. The Blue Doors at Tenkiller are in their 11th Summer season, welcoming guests into 12 individual casitas set up in a very cool, retro motor-lodge fashion, giving visitors a glimpse of the property's original glory days of the 1950s. Owner Janie Honiker purchased...
July 2020
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100 Years of Hunzicker
A tradition of excellence, a century in the making Article by Amanda Jane Simcoe One Hundred years ago this summer, Walter Hunzicker Sr. sent a letter from Oklahoma City to his wife back home in Lafayette, Indiana. His Brother, Fred Hunzicker, was living in Oklahoma and pitched a business idea. The brothers should start a lighting company together. Starting the business would require the purchase of a train carload of Mazda lamps (light bulbs manufactured by the company that would later become...
July 2020
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