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New evidence uncovered by The Buffalo History Museum might explain why The Anchor Bar chose to serve blue cheese and celery with its first plates of wings nearly six decades ago.<\/p>\n

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Bar-Bill Tavern Wings as captured by Visit Buffalo Niagara<\/p><\/div>\n

Celery and blue cheese have been a fixture of wing orders served at restaurants in Buffalo for as long as most can remember. Museum researchers discovered a piece of food history that may explain the origin of that pairing while collecting old menus of The Anchor Bar, which first served Buffalo-style wings back in 1964. An appetizer called blue cheese stuffed celery existed on a menu of the restaurant that was printed around the same time that Teressa Bellissimo first created the now world-famous snack.<\/p>\n

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Blue cheese stuffed celery seen at top of\u00a0 1960s Anchor Bar Menu<\/p><\/div>\n

On that particular menu, which Library Director Cynthia Van Ness traced to the mid-1960s, the city\u2019s beloved wings aren\u2019t even on the menu yet. But the appetizer, which cut down on the heat of anything it was served with, could explain why Teressa Bellissimo chose those foods to serve with her early plates of hot wings \u2013 and why they\u2019ve accompanied most orders of wings in Buffalo ever since. Even as ranch dressing became the preferred side for many U.S. wing restaurants in recent decades, Buffalo has always sworn by its blue cheese \u2013 just as The Anchor Bar first plated it all those decades ago.<\/p>\n

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Van Ness is embarking on a restaurant menu collecting initiative in order to create a stronger record of Buffalo\u2019s food history. She has since collected nearly a dozen Anchor Bar menus from 1955 to 2010 that trace its journey from a humble neighborhood restaurant to a Mecca for wing lovers from around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody has food traditions, and if you aren\u2019t documenting food traditions, you\u2019re missing a big part of your city\u2019s history,\u201d Van Ness said.<\/p>\n

The Buffalo History Museum Library is interested in collecting more Anchor Bar menus, placemats, matchbooks, receipts, and personal photos. Further inquiries can be directed to library@buffalohistory.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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