Classic Restaurants of Oklahoma City

by David Cathey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625856685
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	12/05/2016
Series:	American Palate
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Dave Cathey has been food editor and written the "Food Dude" column for the Oklahoman since 2008. In more than twenty-five years at the Oklahoman, he has served as state editor, assistant city editor and television columnist. This is his second book for Arcadia/The History Press. The first was A Culinary History of Pittsburg County: Little Italy, Choctaw Beer and Lamb Fries in 2013. He is married to his wife, Lori, and has two children, Luke and Kate.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

Part I From Birth To Bad To Worse 11

1 Downtown Endurance 13

2 Waffles Show the Way 21

3 It's the Sauce! 27

4 Specialty Dining 31

5 From Dubious Beginnings 39

Part II Everything Goes Boom 43

6 Hard Six to Easy Chair 45

7 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 49

8 The Cafeteria Capital of the World 53

9 Outranking the Colonel 67

10 Flavors of the World 71

11 From the Pits to Great Heights 83

12 Breeding Ground for Hoodlumism 91

13 Enduring Diners 97

Part III Cultures Blossom, Boomers Finally Busted 103

14 Fine Dining Takes Shape 105

15 Variety Is the Spice of Life 121

16 Burgers and Sandwiches 129

17 Global Cuisine 135

18 Home Cookin' 143

Part IV Bust To Bombing To Big League City 149

19 Cattlemen's Café to Cattlemen's Steakhouse 151

20 The Theater of Dining 155

21 Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez 159

22 From Nino's to Chelino's 163

23 Rise of the Asian District 165

24 The Next Wave 169

Notes 173

Bibliography 177

Index 181

About the Author 189