Classic Restaurants of Oklahoma City

Classic Restaurants of Oklahoma City

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Publication Date: 5th December 2016

Some of Oklahoma City's earliest famous restaurants included a side of gambling, bootlegging and mayhem. Cattlemen's Café changed hands by a roll of the dice one Christmas. In more recent years, establishments like O'Mealey's and Adair's positioned the city's identity as a unique, groundbreaking culinary hub. The city became known as the Cafeteria Capital thanks to the revolutionary approach of a diminutive Kansas woman named Anna Maude Smith. Beverly's Chicken-in-the-Rough became a national fried-chicken franchise two decades before Harland Sanders sold his first drumstick. And world-renowned... Read More
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Some of Oklahoma City's earliest famous restaurants included a side of gambling, bootlegging and mayhem. Cattlemen's Café changed hands by a roll of the dice one Christmas. In more recent years, establishments like O'Mealey's and Adair's positioned the city's identity as a unique, groundbreaking culinary hub. The city became known as the Cafeteria Capital thanks to the revolutionary approach of a diminutive Kansas woman named Anna Maude Smith. Beverly's Chicken-in-the-Rough became a national fried-chicken franchise two decades before Harland Sanders sold his first drumstick. And world-renowned... Read More
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Some of Oklahoma City's earliest famous restaurants included a side of gambling, bootlegging and mayhem. Cattlemen's Café changed hands by a roll of the dice one Christmas. In more recent years, establishments like O'Mealey's and Adair's positioned the city's identity as a unique, groundbreaking culinary hub. The city became known as the Cafeteria Capital thanks to the revolutionary approach of a diminutive Kansas woman named Anna Maude Smith. Beverly's Chicken-in-the-Rough became a national fried-chicken franchise two decades before Harland Sanders sold his first drumstick. And world-renowned chef Rick Bayless first learned to cook at his parents' barbecue restaurant in south Oklahoma City. Join author Dave Cathey as he dishes on these delectable stories and more.
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  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: American Palate
  • Publication Date: 5th December 2016
  • State: Oklahoma
  • Illustration Note: Color sigs / inserts
  • ISBN: 9781467119214
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    TRAVEL / Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Author Bio
Dave Cathey is food editor for The Oklahoman and NewsOK.com in Oklahoma City. He writes The Food Dude column for The Oklahoman and films restaurant spotlights and cooking demonstrations on NewsOK. He holds a degree in journalism from Oklahoma Christian and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma.
Some of Oklahoma City's earliest famous restaurants included a side of gambling, bootlegging and mayhem. Cattlemen's Café changed hands by a roll of the dice one Christmas. In more recent years, establishments like O'Mealey's and Adair's positioned the city's identity as a unique, groundbreaking culinary hub. The city became known as the Cafeteria Capital thanks to the revolutionary approach of a diminutive Kansas woman named Anna Maude Smith. Beverly's Chicken-in-the-Rough became a national fried-chicken franchise two decades before Harland Sanders sold his first drumstick. And world-renowned chef Rick Bayless first learned to cook at his parents' barbecue restaurant in south Oklahoma City. Join author Dave Cathey as he dishes on these delectable stories and more.
  • Pages: 208
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: American Palate
  • Publication Date: 5th December 2016
  • State: Oklahoma
  • Illustrations Note: Color sigs / inserts
  • ISBN: 9781467119214
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    TRAVEL / Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Dave Cathey is food editor for The Oklahoman and NewsOK.com in Oklahoma City. He writes The Food Dude column for The Oklahoman and films restaurant spotlights and cooking demonstrations on NewsOK. He holds a degree in journalism from Oklahoma Christian and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma.