All the chicken wing news that's fit to print during Super
Bowl Week.
It's Super Bowl week, and the hype for "The Rematch" is
inescapable. But almost as ubiquitous as the coverage of the game
are recipes for Super Bowl worthy snacks. Specifically, countless
recipes for chicken wings are taking over the internet. It just may
break under the heat of Frank's Red Hot mixed with butter. Not that
there's anything wrong with this. Be they glazed with teriyaki or
Scotch Bonnet sauce, jerked or smoked, drumettes or flatties,
chicken wings certainly deserve their own week in the national
spotlight. Unless they are boneless. That's just creepy. Without
further ado, here are a handful of wing-related articles and
recipes from the web.
Food & Wine restaurant editor Kate Krader runs down
the
best chicken wings in the country, via Eatocracy. Included
rightfully, is The Anchor
Bar in Buffalo, the alleged birthplace of chicken wing in
1964.
Serious Eats attempts
to
perfect the chicken wing with thorough experimentation.
Freezing and double frying are among the techniques practiced to
produce that perfectly blistered skin.
Epicurious posts Jean-George Vongerichten's
recipe for hot wings. Looking fairly fiery with Scotch Bonnet
hot sauce and diced jalapeno.
The Food Network Magazine offers a recipe for
baked Buffalo wings with blue-cheese yogurt dip ... just in
case you want to scoff at your unhealthy friends and their
deep-fried enjoyment.
And what good would all these wings be without knowledge of the
proper wing eating technique. Huffington Post Food fills us in
with some strategy, including this video from
LifeHacker. Look ma, one hand!
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