It’s National Chicken Wing Day

So Today July 29 raise a wing in honor of National Chicken Wing Day the day rightfully proclaimed in 1977 by Buffalo Mayor Stan Makowski.Whether you like them hot and spicy, sticky sweet or plain Jane and whether your prefer them served with blue cheese, plum sauce or celery sticks, chicken wings have to be the most versatile protein on the planet.

Americans have been attesting to this fact, gobbling up wings by the boat-load with more than 27 billion eaten in 2013 and 1.23 billion wings consumed during Super Bowl weekend alone. That’s over 100-million pounds of wings.

To give you some idea of what that looks like picture the chicken wings laid out end to end -- they’d circle the perimeter of the Earth not once but twice!

Buffalo, New York lays claim to the birthplace of the chicken wing and that’s why they are often called Buffalo wings as well.

The story goes that Teressa Bellissimo created chicken wings at the Anchor Bar, which she owned with her husband Frank, when her son Dominic and some of his college friends decided they wanted a late night bite to eat.

She wanted a fast and easy dish so she deep-fried some chicken wings, which in 1964 were usually reserved for soup stock.

She tossed them in butter and hot sauce. Naturally, they were an instant hit. Read More