Great Writing Is Like Inventing Buffalo Wings

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Joseph Serwach
The Masterpiece

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Great Writing Is Like Inventing Buffalo Wings
A bowl of chicken (Buffalo) wings and celery. Photo by John Tornow via Wikimedia Commons.

Americans eat more than 28 billion chicken wings per year, including more than 1.4 billion on Super Bowl Sunday, but they’re still a fairly new invention.

The secret is in the sauces. The newness of these flavorful food inventions (and every variation of sauces that turn ordinary chicken into Buffalo wings) keeps wing demand “hot.”

During the 2020 Pandemic, combined U.S. sales to restaurants and supermarkets jumped10.3 percent to more than $3 billion while sales of frozen wings leaped 37 percent.

The gritty Buffalo, NY story adds to the appeal. Most credit the invention of Buffalo wings to Teressa Bellissimo, who founded the Anchor Bar in 1935 with her husband, Frank.

Great Inventions, Brands (and Writing) Starts With an Original Idea

Your sauce gives something ordinary its sizzle. Like all good stories, there are variations, but the most popular version explaining the making of the masterpiece known as Buffalo wings goes like this:

Teressa Bellissimo’s son, Dominic, was tending bar one Friday night in March 1964 when his buddies came “home” from college. They…

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Joseph Serwach
The Masterpiece

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