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

In 2016, Elizabeth Frame Ellison opened Mother Road Market in Tulsa’s Market District with a food incubator called Kitchen 66. Kitchen 66 was built around a simple belief that talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not. Vendors get access to a licensed commercial kitchen, one-on-one business coaching, food entrepreneurship classes, and distribution connections that can move a home recipe onto grocery shelves. More than 250 entrepreneurs from 38 countries have come through since its founding.

“In many ways, that’s the next chapter of Route 66,” Ellison says. “The road has always been about discovery. Today, that discovery includes new cultures, new flavors, and a new generation of entrepreneurs shaping the Mother Road’s future.”

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