Please, oh please, don't contribute to the current fad of using "spice" as a euphemism for capsaicin. Capsaicin isn't spice, it's dog repellent.
Buffalo wings did come from Buffalo -- I was near Albany at the time, and when first introduced they were "chicken wings the way they prepare them in Buffalo." Could have been a lie, of course, but Buffalo wasn't noted for anything except getting buried in snow every winter, so it would have been a queer sort of lie. The initial surge of popularity came of wings being the cheapest cut of chicken. (The price of wings rapidly rose in response.) For authentic Buffalo wings, melt one stick of butter, stir in one bottle of Tabasco, soak deep-fried chicken wings in it. (Wings are fried naked, no breading.) Serve with celery sticks and blue-cheese dip. Around here, they just call them "wings" these days, and the seasoning isn't so restricted. They are still served with celery sticks. There's rather a nice restaurant in the Detroit-Street sprawl called "Wings Etc."; I think it's a chain. -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://home.comcast.net/~debeeson/DaveCam/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com.
