You Can Eat Your Way Through History Along Tulsa’s Stretch of Route 66

BON APPETIT - Route 66 was never supposed to be a food destination. It was a lifeline, 400 miles of two-lane highway stitched through Oklahoma when the country needed a way west in a hurry.

Families used it to flee the Dust Bowl. Soldiers used it to return home.

And though Oklahoma didn’t exist for the first 130 years of the republic, as Rhys Martin of the Oklahoma Route 66 Association points out, the state’s story sits at the intersection of two celebrations: Route 66 turns 100 the same year America marks its 250th birthday.