ing Festival Eat/Drink
KING OF THE WINGS
TWELVE BOAR
ered by: Dylan Pires (owner) Answered
Answered by: Rick (director)
ss: Food truck (roving location) Address:
Address: 70/90 Middle St, Cleveland
ot are your wings? Give a rating out of 5 (5 being hottest). How hot
How hot are your wings? Give a rating out of 5 (5 being hottest). Mild Stupid Hot
What drink(s) go best with your wings? Green Beacon Beer. Tell us why your wings are special. We’ve spent years researching flavours and have come up with six original recipes, all unique and super tasty! Our wings were recently voted in the Top 3 in Brisbane by the Courier Mail.
What drink(s) go best with your wings? Mild wings go well with lager beers. They clear the palate and gives you the wonderful flavour of buffalo all over again. Tell us why your wings are special. Our wings are the most identical to the ‘original’ buffalo wings and are near exactly how you get ‘buffalo’ wings in the USA. American secrets are applied to our cooking technique to offer the best wings around, creating an instant addiction.
The History Of The
Buffalo Wing Words: Dylan Van Der Riet. Pic: Jason Lam.
1964
was a year that forever changed the landscape of modern culture. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received his Nobel Peace Prize and Beatlemania swept across the wider USA, Buffalo Wing-mania was taking over the blue-collar town of Buffalo, New York, changing American cuisine forever. The exact origins of the iconic chicken variation is still debated by historians to
this day, but there are some things that we do know. The dish was first prepared by Buffalo local Teressa Bellissimo in the Italian restaurant/bar owned and operated by her family. Bellissimo is said to have quickly whipped up the deep-fried wings to serve to with hot sauce in an act of quick-witted inventiveness following a botched butcher’s delivery that left her with an excess of otherwise useless chicken wings. Bellissimo’s son tells a relatively less dramatic tale, saying his mother put the dish together as a cheap hors d’oeuvres to serve to late night drinkers at the bar. Regardless of their true origins, the wings were an immediate success. By 1977 the appetiser had become so popular across the city that Buffalo’s mayor declared 29 July ‘Chicken Wing Day’. It wasn’t until 1982 that Buffalo first escaped the confines of upstate New York, when the first major Buffalo Wing chain restaurant, Buffalo Wild Wings, spread interstate. The dish’s popularity exploded nationally as Buffalo was thrust into the spotlight when the city’s NFL team the Buffalo Bills appeared in four consecutive Super Bowls from 1991 to 1994. Buffalo Wings are now served internationally as a staple of American cuisine and remain as popular as ever in the United States and abroad. THE MUSIC 26TH AUGUST 2015 • 27