Remembering Western New York's first 'king of wings'
Updated: 12:08 AM EST February 21, 2021 BUFFALO, N.Y. — February is, of course, Black History Month and we are asking a culinary question. Who created the Buffalo wing? Well, if you said "The Anchor Bar", you may want to think again. Before Drew Cerza was the Wing King, even before the queen of wings, Theresa Bellisimo of the Anchor Bar tossed her first wings in hot sauce, there was "The King of Wings." John Young got his start the early sixties with a restaurant at Jefferson and Carlton. He spent the next few years frying up chicken wings at a number of locations on Buffalo...