
The Super Bowl is less than two weeks away. Now I know that most of you probably eat, in accordance with tradition, nothing but cupcakes that day. But hear me out: buffalo chicken wings. I know that it sounds crazy, but try it. Even if it’s as a compromise recipe, like this cupcake by Stef of The Cupcake Project.
Buffalo wings and cupcakes. Like haggis and this tube of expired cookie dough that I found behind Alex’s desk, they just naturally belong together.
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Won’t someone think of the chicken? An extended NFL lockout would be bad for football lovers, but it’d be absolutely devastating to the chicken wing industry:
"It would kill wings, it would be terrible on wings," Joe Sanderson said at the Reuters Global Food and Agriculture Summit on Monday.
Chicken wings are popular fare at sports bars, especially on fall and winter Sundays when the National Football League has most of its games.
After weeks of deliberations NFL team owners and players have not reached agreements on a number of labor issues, including pay and profit sharing. A federal court will hear an antitrust suit filed by NFL players on April 6.
Wholesale chicken wing prices generally run up in the weeks ahead of the league’s Super Bowl each February. This year, however, prices have been pressured by too many chickens on the lots.
After all these years of eating chicken wings, it turns out that I’ve been doing it all wrong! Chef John of Food Wishes reveals the secret of eating a flat wing: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube clip]
