Buffalo 'Wing King' wins wing throwdown |
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Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:13
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Buffalo's 'Wing King' was flying high Friday after defeating Food Network chef Bobby Flay in a chicken wing cook-off.Drew Cerza was blind-sided when Flay showed up during a cooking demonstration and issued a challenge to compete on his show, 'Throwdown with Bobby Flay,' which features the chef traveling the country taking on locals and their specialties.The Buffalo wing episode, taped a few weeks ago, aired Thursday night. It will be re-shown throughout the rest of the month.'This is bigger than big,' Cerza is seen saying inside the Anchor Bar, the mom-and-pop tavern that created the chicken wing as a finger food.Cerza, who founded the National Buffalo Wing Festival that takes place here every Labor Day weekend, served his wings with a bourbon sauce, surrounded by the traditional celery and carrot sticks and blue cheese for dipping. Flay made a batch of hot wings with blue cheese-yogurt sauce -- straying from usual wing protocol by dredging the meat in flour before deep-frying.'When Bobby floured his wings, I was like, 'What's he doing?' because we just don't do that,' Cerza said. The step made for juicy, crispy wings, he acknowledged, adding Flay's wings tasted great, too.In the end, two judges, one from another wing restaurant and the other a University at Buffalo student, picked Cerza's wings in a blind taste test.'I think last night was kind of me making my mark,' Cerza said Friday.--------------Food Network is 70-percent owned by Scripps Networks of The E.W. Scripps Co.Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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