Wings Across America: 150 Outrageously Delicious Chicken-Wing Recipes [Hardcover]

A. C. Vanderstigche (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1960

Chef Vanderstigchel has turned his love of wings into an amusing collection of recipes, information, photos, and cartoons, including the story of the first Buffalo wings ever served. Nearly 200 recipes run the gamut, from sweet to hot. Photos & illustrations.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 211 pages
• Publisher: Citadel (January 1, 1960)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559724560
• ISBN-13: 978-1559724562
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 7.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,705,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wings--wonderful--Wings, April 16, 2000

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This review is from: Wings Across America: 150 Outrageously Delicious Chicken-Wing Recipes (Hardcover)

Even here in the colder, more remote parts of the world, one occasionally gets a tremendous craving for WINGS, which of course is exacerbated by the fact that the nearest restaurant that serves wings is three hours away. So, on those rare occasions when the Chicken Truck doesn't accidentally take a wrong turn at Tok, heading north to Fairbanks instead of south to Soldotna, and I can find wings at the grocery store, I take heart and reach for the Wings Across America Cookbook. For the most part, I have learned new tricks from Chef Vanderstigchel--two favorites are Hoisin Scallion Wings (p. 93) and Great Wings of Astoria (p. 119)--and I keep promising to invite friends over for wings but...what the heck. Life is short and we don't want to share. Having cooked through many of the recipes, I have noticed several problems: some seem repetitive (same ingredients from one recipe to the next), several recipes rely on prepared sauces (store teriyaki sauce--yuck--or specific brands of hot sauces & barbecue sauces) and finally, other recipes are simply not as spicy as advertised, Tripwire Wings (p. 85). This last problem could be due to the inferior quality of local jalapeno peppers or it may be that my tastebuds are burned out. But, these minor problems aside, this is a good cookbook, which has been a welcome addition to our cooking library and I never, ever lend it out. So, you'll have to get your own.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No wonder it's a hard to find book ... Superb recepies ...., September 29, 2003

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Rudolf Spoerer "dowadiddi" (Weston, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wings Across America: 150 Outrageously Delicious Chicken-Wing Recipes (Hardcover)

I think I saw the author on one of the talking heads morning programs preparing some chicken wing recepie, which then made it difficult for me to find the book anywhere later in the day.

Now that I have had a chance to, of course, get the book and try some of the recepies I can certainly attest to the reason it was hard to get. WOW ... even though we may all have fallen into the pit of deep frying wings and buying buffalo wing sauces at the local Piggely Wiggely .... this book will blow out all of your chicken wing pre-conceptions ....

There are suaerbraten wing recepies, hoisin sauce recepies, sour cream recepies and so on and so forth, all of them exquisite, and a taste sensation. The recepies are very varied in the basic prep of the wings and most do not take that many steps. There are a multitude of flavours to choose from ranging from the dark sweet brown sugar glazed wings to spicy Eastern wings made with chutney or hoisin sauce to tangy sour European style wings.

The 'Desert Fox Wing' recepie (page 79) for example, uses orange juice, lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, lemon and orange zest, rosemary, thyme, oregano, cardamon, cumin,tumeric and of course salt in the preparation of the marinade .... WOW .... how many chickens did they have to kill just to get that list of ingredients .....

The book has a few B&W pictures on how to prep the wings but they have no pictures of dish presentation... I can understand that since all you really need is just a roll of paper towells and a beer ... Some of the recepies have a history or a restaurant tied to them and some, I guess, are just from the author.... The book is 203 pages long and I would estimate then that it must have well over 130 recipies

Like I said ... don't expect this book to be picked up on the cheap but do RUN and buy a copy ..... then call me and invite me over for wings and a beer ... LOL

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lots recipes, but disapointing, August 15, 2008

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This review is from: Wings Across America: 150 Outrageously Delicious Chicken-Wing Recipes: 150 Outrageously Delicious Chicken Wings Recipes (Paperback)

I was very disappointed with the recipes in this book, the base of each recipe was almost identical, in other word there were only a couple methods of cooking the wings, which was used in each recipe. Only slight variations were used. Nothing unique about this book or the recipes, wish I knew of an alternative, I was hoping to find a better or more alternatives to cooking wings. Complete waste of money.