La Brea Tar Pit Chicken Wings Recipe from The Gourmet Cookbook …

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The recipe came to. us from reader Metta Miller, from Boston, and it’s a. staff favorite. ?. 4 pounds chicken wings, split at joint and wing tips …

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54 The Gourmet Cookbook
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Buffalo Chicken Wings
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? Though common to cuisines around the world,
chicken wings didn’t really take off in the United States
until the early 1960s. Their flight to fame is credited to
Teressa and Frank Bellissimo, the owners of the Anchor
Bar in Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Bellissimo, in an ingenious
attempt to use up an overabundance of wings at
the restaurant, deep-fried them, tossed them in her
husband’s hot sauce and melted butter, and served
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them with celery sticks and blue cheese dressing on the
side-a cool, creamy antidote to the spicy blaze of the
wings. Their bar food eventually spread across the country.
You can deep-fry our wings