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1 Coca-Cola Field Saturday, August 31st 12-9pm Sunday, September 1st 12-7pm Labor Day Weekend Produced by Just Wing It Productions, Inc. #Wingfest13 Like us on Facebook, facebook.com/buffalowingfestival #Wingfest13 Check in at National Buffalo Wing Festival 2013!

2 Welcome to Drew Cerza Wing King Festival Founder The National Buffalo Wing Festival celebrates Buffalo Wings, which have become a national food icon. Invented in 1964 at the world famous Anchor Bar by Frank and Teressa Bellissimo, is the official Home of the Chicken Wing. The popularity of the chicken wing has made it America s #1 appetizer. Last year alone, over 13.5 billion wings were consumed by Americans, 1.23 billion on Super Bowl Weekend alone. In 2002, actor Bill Murray playing Frank Detorre starred in one of his notoriously eclectic movies entitled, Osmosis Jones. Murray played the part of an average Joe addicted to fried food and other artery-clogging fare, who was heading to Buffalo New York for of all things a chicken wing festival. Well, as we all know, at that time there WAS NO CHICKEN WING FESTIVAL in at least not yet. Buffalo News columnist Donn Esmonde heard about the Murray movie, and wondered, Why isn t there an annual National Wing Fest in Buffalo? Esmonde wrote a column suggesting that there should be such a festival, as a way of staking a claim to what is rightfully a Buffalo creation. I read that article and called Donn the very next day, agreeing with the columnist s theory. Esmonde then wrote about my Wing Fest plan in a subsequent column, asking the community for its support. That was 11 years ago. Since then we have had 725,000 attendees, served almost 3.8 million wings weighing more than 212 tons, have had 200 participating restaurants, $250,000 in charitable contributions and yes, even a wedding ceremony. The Wingfest has drawn the attention of media throughout the world, including many appearances on CNN, The Travel Channel, The View and Regis and Kelly, NBC S Today Show, and was also the subject for a PBS Documentary. The festival also drew the attention of the Food Network as Food Icon Bobby Flay came to Buffalo for a chicken wing throwdown and Emeril Lagasse filmed the festival for a show on Buffalo Wings. The National Buffalo Wing Festival has become one of the best culinary road trips in America. Last year we tracked visitors from all 50 states and 34 different countries. All for the love of the Buffalo Wing. Thanks for joining us this Labor Day Weekend as we celebrate the 12th annual National Buffalo Wing Festival. Keep Wingin It Table of Contents Festival Sponsors... Page 3 Schedule of Events... Page 4 Music Schedule... Page 4 Buffalo Wing Hall of Flame Inductees... Page 5 Restaurants Sauce List... Page 7 Festival Map/Restaurant locations... Page 8-9 Each day features over 35 local and out-of-town restaurants serving over 100 different styles of Buffalo wings. Other festival food favorites include Pizza, Chicken Wing Soup, Chicken Fingers, Ice Cream and more! Admission $5. Children 8 and under FREE. Jumbo Chicken Wings $1.00 each Other food and beverage pricing displayed at individual booths Special thanks to DREW CERZA The Wing King and all of the volunteers for making the Wing Festival possible! 2 National Buffalo Wing Festival

3 FESTIVAL SPONSORS Hot Sponsors Event Sponsors Buffalo Boosters Media Sponsors 2013 Benefiting Charities The National Buffalo Wing Festival has raised over $250,000 for local charities. Thank you for your support! National Buffalo Wing Festival 3

4 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Main Stage Schedule Saturday, August 31, 2013 ALL DAY Kids Zone Play all day Hot Sauce 1:00PM 1:30PM Amateur Creative Sauce Off Amateur Traditional Sauce Off 2:00PM 2:30PM Heavenly Chilbillies Mark DeCarlo Comedy Cooking Fry Oil 3:00PM 3:30PM 4:00PM The Healthy Zone Recipe Challenge Bobbing for Wings Amateur Wing Eating Championship 4:45PM 5:15PM 6:00PM Pro Football Eating Challenge Restaurant Award Ceremony Buffalo Buffet Bowl Eating Contest Chicken WIng 7:00PM Heavenly Chilbillies 7:30PM Closing Ceremonies Sunday, September 1, 2013 ALL DAY Kids Zone Play all day 12:30PM Baby Wing Competition PRICING: Jumbo Chicken Wings $1.00 each Other food and beverage pricing displayed at individual booths 1:00PM 1:30PM 2:30PM 3:00PM 4:00PM 5:00PM 5:30PM 6:00PM 7:00PM Dennis George QuizMaster Miss Buffalo Wing Pageant College Wing Eating Competition Mark DeCarlo Comedy & Cooking Show United States Chicken Wing Eating Championship Dennis George QuizMaster Hot Wing Eating Contest Heavenly Chilbillies Closing Ceremonies At the Wing Dings Booth Main Stage House Band Heavenly Chilbillies Saturday, AUGUST. 31 2:00 & 7:00 PM... Heavenly Chilbillies Blues Concert SUNday, Sept. 1 6:00PM...Heavenly Chilbillies Blues Concert 4 National Buffalo Wing Festival

5 Buffalo Wing Hall of Flame John Young Wings and Things 2013 Buffalo Wing Festival Dedicated to: Brian Kahle Brain Kahle was the public relations machine behind the National Buffalo Wing Festival. When festival founder Drew Cerza announced the 1st annual event, Brian knew immediately the festival was a project that he wanted to let the world know about. Brian passed away earlier this year at 68 years young, but his legacy will live on within the soul of the Wingfest. Brian loved to tell a story, and he told it well. Brian gained local fame as a news personality at Channel 7, WKBW-TV from 1978 to In his marketing career, Brian had that old-school quality where he would actually pick up the phone and call somebody. He was a professional guy. He also co-hosted AM Buffalo, a local talk show. When he was on the show, he always did his homework, whether it was an author or a local doctor or even a Wing King. In 2001, Brian started a public relations firm called Magic Marketing a nod to his other work as a professional magician in 1995, while he was still at WKBW. He said, I ve always felt the need to diversify, in part because of the nature and uncertainty of the television business, but also because I ve found so many other things that interest me. He also had a weekly radio show on WLVL Radio in Lockport. In the early 1990s, he operated a restaurant in Jamestown called the Magic Parlour. Brian had a great love for magic. Brian was the proud father of Christina and Michael. He loved life and lived it to the fullest. As an avid boater, Brian spent his summers in Wilson, NY. Brian Kahle will be greatly missed, however his legacy will live on forever every Labor Day Weekend in. Since its inception in 2006, The National Buffalo Wing Hall of Flame has sought to identify and celebrate those who have played significant roles in the stunning growth and popularity of our beloved chicken wing. Each year as the Festival begins we honor the contributions of early adapters without whom wings might still be relegated to the trash, as opposed to the center of the plate. What better reason to celebrate the story of John Young and his little-known contribution to that endeavor? It is a story that was almost lost to history, but the Hall of Flame uncovered it and we tell it to you here. Some actually claim that John Young s creation actually predates that of the Anchor Bar s legendary Teressa Bellissimo. The Hall of Flame does not acknowledge that claim and will not litigate that question here. There is however, no question that Mr. Young was in fact, an early chicken wing pioneer who has earned his rightful place in chicken wing history. His story was recently written about by Hall of Flame Board Member and Buffalo News columnist, Donn Esmonde. With permission, that story is paraphrased here: A man s chicken wing legacy needs to be honored. His contribution needs acknowledging. The recognition would, ideally, include the re-discovery of the recipe for his long-lost mambo sauce. John Young, former Buffalo restaurateur and chef is more than an asterisk in the rich annals of the chicken wing. He is a pioneer. In the 1960s, Young independent of the 1964 wing-creation of Teressa Bellissimo at the Anchor Bar came up with a variation of the now-renowned delicacy. Although Young claimed credit as the true creator of the chicken wing phenomenon, his is obviously not the version that the world subsequently came to know and love. But had fate taken a different turn, we might today be slathering our wings in mambo sauce and Young would posthumously wear the crown of creation. Although his conception of the chicken wing was not widely appreciated, it was an early, historically intriguing variation on a Buffalo standard. Young said he started selling wings in 1963 and opened Wings and Things on the city s East Side in He recalled the restaurant s instant popularity in a 1996 interview with then-news food critic Janice Okun. The day we opened, Young said, people were lined up around the corner. Young first ate wings while growing up in South, where meals in the African-American community were commonly made of the spare parts of animals. A decade after moving to Buffalo as a teenager, he decided to go all-in with a wing-specializing restaurant. In the traditional version invented at the Anchor Bar, the wing is cut in half, deep-fried, slathered in a hot-sauced concoction, and served with celery and blue cheese dressing. Young breaded and fried the whole wing a variation still served in some Southern restaurants. Instead of a hot sauce coating, he concocted a highly seasoned, tomato-based mambo sauce. Young eventually retired from the business and died at age 64 in He was survived at the time by his wife, Christine, and several children and grandchildren. Today, we give the man his due and memorialize his historic contribution along the culinary path that has become today s center of the plate the world over. Today we celebrate John Young s contributions and honor his memory, as our 2013 inductee into the National Buffalo Wing Hall of Flame. National Buffalo Wing Festival 5

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7 RESTAURANT MENU Jumbo Chicken Wings $1.00 each Abigail s Restaurant Waterloo, NY Traditional Spicy Asian Peanut Hot Raspberry Peanut Butter & Jelly Hot Chocolate Anchor Bar BBQ Suicidal Blue Ribbon Tavern Chestnut Ridge, NY Not So Hot (Mild) Sorta Hot () The Creeper (Hot) The Hammer (X-Hot) Bali Bocce Club Pizza Amherst, NY Traditional BBQ Pit Cajun Also serving slices of pizza Booty s Wings, Burgers & Beer Surprise, AZ Buffalo Chipotle Garlic Jalapeno BBQ Triple Threat (Dry Rub) Booty Blast (Dry Rub) Brickyard Pub & BBQ Lewiston, NY Brickyard House Rub Brickyard House BBQ Charlie the Butcher Cheektowaga, NY Roast Beef on Weck Chrusciki Bakery Buffalo Angel Wings (Chrusciki) Raspberry Twists Cinnamon Sticks Costanzo s Bakery Spicy Buffalo Chicken Salad on Spicy Buffalo Roll Danny s South Buffalo NY Tailgate Wings (Hot with Cajun Spices) Buffalo Wing Soup Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cream Pie The Depot Restaurant Oneonta, NY Garbage Wing Mild Hot Dinosaur BBQ Rochester, NY Sensuous Slathering Wango Tango Devils Duel Even Flow Bar & Grill Long Island, NY Tropical Thai Habenero Bourbon BBQ Parmesan Buffalo Falletta s Restaurant East Amherst, NY Chicken Wing Rice Ball Stuffed Hungarian Hot Pepper Mile-High Chocolate Cupcake Strawberry & Peach Shortcake Cannolis Fire on the Mountain Portland, OR & Denver, CO Peanut Curry Buffalo Lime Cilantro El Nino El Jefe Raspberry Habanero Buffalo Nam Gabriel s Gate Suicide Suicide BBQ Hot BBQ Plain BBQ Hot Italian The Healthy Zone Buffalo Wing Dip Buffalo Wing Mac n Cheese Vegetarian Wings Watermelon Jack Astor s Bar & Grill Cheektowaga, NY Honey Garlic Lime Cajun BBQ Bacon Beer Wing Hot Astor Wing LaNova Mild Hot Inferno BBQ Roasted Garlic Golden BBQ Honey Mustard Garlic Parmesan Legend Larry Sheboygan, WI Spicy Bacon BBQ Hot (Scary Larry) Hot Garlic Perry s Ice Cream Perry s ice cream ½ pints Novelties Morris Concessions Kettering, OH Deep fried: Snickers Oreos Cookie Dough Pickles Mushrooms Cheese Curds The Nine Eleven Tavern Mild Hot Parrot s Cay Grand Forks, ND Shark Sauce Captain s BBQ Tipsy s Thai Dye Buffalo Bliss North Dakota Napalm Quaker Steak & Lube Sharon, PA Boom Boom Smokey Gold BBQ Arizona Ranch Louisiana Lickers Original BBQ Golden Garlic Haute Parm Thai-Cajun Real Sports Bar & Grill Toronto, ON Thai Sweet Chili Bacon Maple Mustard Go For Gold Key Lime Salt Bob Caygeon Honey Mustard Dill The Riverstone Grill Grand Island, NY Grilled Pineapple and Habanero Jerk Smoke Peach and Berry Melba Pat Sauce Siracha and Lime RuChDa Wings Atlanta, GA Honey Garlic Pepper Russy Hot Brown Star Honey Cajun Honey Lemon Pepper Shanghaii Slider s Grill & Bar Plainville, CT Buffalo Mild Buffalo Flamin Raspberry Strawberry Jalapeno Honey Chipotle Hot & Sweet BBQ Smokey Bones Cheektowaga, NY Memphis Seasoned Sweet Glaze Buffaque WingStreet Dallas, TX Honey BBQ Buffalo Spicy BBQ Buffalo Burnin Hot Buffalo Mild Spicy Asian Lemon Pepper Garlic Parmesan Yancey s Fancy Corfu, NY Cheesy Buffalo Cheddar Wings Cheesy Garlic Buffalo Cheddar Wings Cheesy Chipotle Cheddar Wings National Buffalo Wing Festival 7

8 Vendor locations 1. Perry s Ice Cream 2. Pop in Bob s Kettle Korn 3. The Nine Eleven Tavern 4. Booty s Wings, Burgers & Beer 5. Smokey Bones 6. Morris Concessions 7. The Riverstone Grille 8. The Brickyard 9. Even Flow Bar & Grill 10. Anchor Bar 11. Buffalo Angel Wings 12. Danny s South 13. Wing Dings 14. Charlie the Butcher 15. Yancey s Fancy 16. Barefoot Wines 17. Snyder s of Hanover 18. Food Tickets 19. Slider s Bar & Grille 20. The Depot Restaurant 21. Abigail s Restaurant 22. Yuengling Beer Tent 23. Fire on the Mountain 24. WingStreet 25. Parrot s Cay 26. Quaker Steak & Lube 27. Real Sports Bar & Grill 28. Gabriel s Gate 29. RuChDa Wings 30. Falletta s Restaurant 31. Jack Astor s Bar & Grill 32. Blue Ribbon Tavern 33. Legend Larry 34. Bocce Club Pizza 35. The Healthy Zone 36. La Nova 37. Costanzo s Bakery 38. Dinosaur BBQ 39. Frank s Red Hot 40. Geico 41. Festival Info 42. Autographs/ Photos 43. The Buffalo News 44. Festival Merchandise ATM Machine Buffalo Wing Cheddar Cheese Entertainment zone Buffalo Citybration BPO Nation Anthony Jewelers Mechanical Wing (Bull) Rides National Guard Aerial Satellite Yelp Bath Fitter Sailor Jerry Labatt Blue Beer Tent Labatt Blue Wingman Hockey 8 National Buffalo Wing Festival

9 30 Labatt Blue Wingman Hockey Large Jumbo Chicken Wings $1.00 each Other food and beverage pricing displayed at individual booths Sailor Jerry Rum Labatt Blue Beer Tent Buffalo Citybration BPO Nation Anthony Jewelers Mechanical Wing (Bull) Rides National Guard Aerial Satellite Yelp Bath Fitter Sailor Jerry Volunteer Check-In Media Check-In Admission Tickets Blue Cheese Chicken WIng BigBoard Consumers Craft Beer Corner Bison Beer Tent Snack $ Yuengling Beer Tent $ Food Tickets Supplier National Buffalo Wing Festival 9

10 Hart Hotels...proud sponsors of the National Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival Whatever your business, we re your family New York ~ Maine ~ Vermont Official Fry Oil of the National Buffalo Wing Festival 10 National Buffalo Wing Festival

11 thank you to the thousands of Western New Yorkers who trust us with their health. As part of an organization that insures nearly 1 in 3 Americans *, we promise to continue to work hard for you each and every day. That means you can count on us to provide the security, stability, and quality of care you deserve. Because the longer we can keep you healthy, the longer you can keep doing the things you love. bcbswny.com A division of HealthNow New York Inc., an independent licensee of the BlueCross BlueShield Association. *Based on total combined membership of all licensees of the BlueCross BlueShield Association per enrollment data 3/31/2012 and the population of the United States per U.S. Census Bureau data 5/ National Buffalo Wing Champion X-HOT Sauce The Best Wings Since Sliced Bread 2012, 13 Wing & Rock Champion Most Wings Sold National Buffalo Wing Festival 11

12 UNITED STATES NATIONAL CHICKEN WING EATING CHAMPIONSHIP REMATCH SUNDAY, SEPT. 1, :00 PM JOEY JAWS CHESTNUT vs. World # 1 San Jose, CA SONYA BLACK WIDOW THOMAS Eric Badlands Booker World #12 Selden, NY Miki Sudo World #7 Las Vegas, NV Michelle Cardboard Shell Lesco World #14 Tucson, AZ Buffalo Jim Reeves World #18 Boston, NY Yasir The Doggy Bag Salem World #19 New York City Steve Hendry World #22 Dixon, CA BUFFALO BUFFET BOWL Saturday, August 31st 6:00 PM 12 National Buffalo Wing Festival Crazy Legs Conti World #23 New York City World #3 Alexandria, VA Big Brian Subich, World #29, Johnstown, PA Mike Landrich World #36 Fredonia, NY