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  • The exterior wall of the Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street History Center in Tulsa: dark brick with a James Baldwin quote in raised cream letters reading, 'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

    The Road Was the Syllabus

    ByKara June 7June 6 Food & Politics, Travel

    You can’t drive the South from Atlanta to Tulsa without driving through its history of racial and tribal injustice. What eleven hours and five states are actually made of.

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  • The El Rancho Grande neon sign glowing at twilight in Tulsa: a green and red sign reading El Rancho Grande Mexican Food with a neon cowboy, a lit marquee arrow above, on a brick storefront with the street receding behind.

    I Came Home From Tulsa Obsessed With a Jalapeño

    ByKara June 4June 4 Cooking, Travel

    : I came home from Tulsa obsessed with El Rancho Grande’s peanut butter jalapeños. The dish, the plan to recreate it, and a bacon-on-the-Kamado idea.

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  • A large glass bowl of Carol's potato salad, pale gold with flecks of celery and onion, dusted with paprika-orange Lawry's Seasoned Salt across the top.

    Carol’s Potato Salad

    ByKara June 2June 2 Recipes, Personal

    Carol’s potato salad is mayo, mustard, yellow onion, celery, and dill relish dressed on hot potatoes. No secrets. Just muscle memory and good timing.

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  • The exterior of Notes of Marrakesh, a Moroccan restaurant visited on a Tulsa road trip

    Friday Roundup #26 (Live from Tulsa!)

    ByKara May 29May 30 Friday Roundup, Travel

    Six days into a Tulsa road trip: a Route 66 bridge that sings Woody Guthrie, the best Moroccan tagine of my life, Tex-Mex since 1953, and two right slippers

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  • Close-up of fresh white cape jasmine gardenia blossoms in full bloom, with bright yellow centers and dark glossy green leaves in the background.

    Friday Roundup #25 (Halfway to Tulsa Edition)

    ByKara May 22May 23 Friday Roundup, Travel

    Posted from the Napoleon Hotel in Memphis, with my feet up and something cold from the cooler. Well, y’all. I made it halfway. This week’s roundup comes to you from Memphis, where I’m crashing for the night before the second half of the drive to Tulsa tomorrow morning. My friend Anna is meeting me for…

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