Mark DeCarlo Returns to the National Buffalo Wing Festival

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Mark DeCarlo is a celebrity food and travel expert and this year will also be a part of the National Buffalo Wing Festival. Mark will help emcee the festival for the entire weekend as well as perform his “Comedy and Cooking Show” at 3:00 pm on Sunday, September 1, 2013

He will be selling and signing his best-selling book “A Fork in the Road: 400 Cities 1 Stomach.”

At the National Buffalo Wing Festival Mark DeCarlo will also be giving away a 5 Day Cancun Vacation (2 adults, 2 kids (airfare not included) to the hotel of the winner’s choice).

Mark currently appears on ABC’s #1 morning show, Windy City LIVE, as their comedic contributing host and has won an Emmy for that role for Outstanding Host/ Contributor.

Previous to winning the Emmy, Mark hosted The Travel Channel’s hit food show “Taste of America with Mark DeCarlo.” The success of that 5 year show yielded not only the new show on ABC, but also fast-selling book “A Fork on the Road: 400 Cities 1 Stomach.”

Mark’s TV success has catapulted him into the top-tier of in demand Celebrity Chefs at food and wine festivals around the country. This year he will perform at premiere events with a cumulative audience of over 2 million people.

Have you ever asked yourself the question: How do you eat a chicken wing?

How do you eat a chicken wing? We have, and now we’re looking for the answer!

In honor of Buffalo, New York, HowToEataChickenWing.com is hosting a video contest to find out how you eat a chicken wing. Anyway you eat it, We want to see it!

 

Show us your technique. We always wondered… Is there a way to eat a wing with one hand? or do you need both? Can you eat the entire wing in one bite? Two bites? Five? Is there a classy way to eat a chicken wing? Should you always end up as a saucy hot mess? You tell us.

 

All you have to do is make a video of your style for eating a chicken wing. That’s it!

 

Be creative, messy, funny, serious or classy, Most importantly, be the best wing eater you can be!
In 90 seconds or less show us how and why “your style” should be the official way to eat a chicken wing!

 

Click here to enter!

Congratulations to all the Restaurant Sauce Off Winners!

Every year at the National Buffalo Wing Festival restaurants enter their sauces into 3 of 7 categories. The categories are Best Creative Spicy, Best Creative Sweet, Best Traditional BBQ, Best Creative BBQ, Best Traditional Medium, Best Traditional Hot and Best Traditional X-Hot.

A panel of judges then decides which restaurants have the best sauce based on a blind taste test. The first place winners at the 2012 National Buffalo Wing Festival are listed below. Congratulations to all that participated.

Best Creative Spicy: Moosehead Grill – Hemo-goblins blood orange and ghost pepper
Best Creative Sweet: Quaker Steak and Lube – Mango Habanaro
Traditional BBQ: Ricotta’s – Ricotta’s BBQ
Creative BBQ: WOW Cafe & Wingery – Bourbon St. BBQ
Traditional Medium: Smokey Bones – Medium
Traditional Hot: Legend Larry’s – Scary Larry
Traditional X-Hot: Quaker Steak and Lube – XXX Atomic

Click here to see the full list of winners in each category.

Final Restaurants Awards Announced for 2012!

The National Buffalo Wing Festival committee is proud to announce the winners of the Festival Favorite, Rookie of the Year and Festival Spirit awards for 2012.

Festival Favorite: Quaker Steak & Lube

Rookie of the Year: Moosehead Grill – Moosehead Grill won two awards in the Restaurant Sauce Off Competition (1st Creative Spicy, 2nd Creative Sweet) and also did an impressive amount of business for a first year restaurant.

Festival Spirit: Wow Cafe & Wingery – Even with Hurricane Issac looming, WOW Cafe & Wingery managed to make it to the festival and also take home the 1st place trophy for Best Creative BBQ.

 

Click here to see additional Award Winners for the 2012 Festival