World Class Chefs
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Ramilo (Ram) Villaluna
Ram is a budding chef from Iloilo City (Molo). He gained his training in Culinary Arts at the Center for Asian Culinary Studies under food guru Gene Gonzalez, Institute of Culinary Education (formerly Peter Kumpps) in New York. He took up bread making, and he studied food styling under Delores Custer of the Culinary Institute of America. It all started in Antique where his father owned a restaurant many Antiquenos learned to love. He continued the culinary legacy of his father and now, Ram owns a catering business, Cindy\'s Catering. Food is Ram\'s life, seriously speaking. I am short in saying that he is married to the food industry that, he spends most of his time teaching and mentoring at the Department of Culinary Arts at the University of San Agustin in Iloilo. If one cannot find him in the classroom, Ram will be on the road crisscrossing Iloilo and Antique having first hand in the management of his thriving businesses from both provinces. He also has a once-a-week TV show in GMA 7 \"Food Trip\". I met with Ram once before and he exudes perfectionism, the character that will beam him up to the limelight of culinary arts. At present time, Ram is extremely busy in Manila. I believe he is one of the finalists in The National Food Showdown 2010 sponsored by ABS-CBN. We wish you all the luck, Ram! Maybe, after this showdown, Ram will have the opportunity share favorite recipe here at ILONGGO LIVING.
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Battle of the Wings
November 10, 2009
No, this is not about the battle between the Red Wings and the Canucks hockey teams! Definitely NOT! It’s about this very popular finger food that evolved from our next door neighbor, city of Buffalo in upstate New York. It’s located south of the Canadian border, about an hour and 15 minutes drive from our place . Year 1964, Buffalo chicken wings was created accidentally by Ms. Teresa Bellissimo in the kitchen of a restaurant in Buffalo, New York named Anchor Bar and Restaurant. This bar resto still exist up to the present time and prides itself as the home of the original Buffalo Chicken Wings. Since then, Buffalo chicken wings smothered like fire throughout North America that, in time, it gotten ingrained in the national food culture of America. They even celebrate National Buffalo Wings Festival every labor day week-end (Sept. 4-5) as a tribute to American ingenuity. Buffalo chicken wings is also popular worldwide. My blogger friend Jorp of Flavours of Iloilo buzz about this dish quite often in his blog and takes my resource opinion seriously (gee! thanks Jorp, it’s an honor). Who would not be as I have been eating Buffalo Chicken Wings (BCW) regularly for almost half of my life! Furthermore, I tasted the original recipe in Buffalo, New York and as a result, we concocted our very own family recipe of the dish. The secret is beautifully summed up this way: FRY+BAKE+SAUCE=Buffalo Chicken Wings! Most people skip the bake part, which regrettably, turns the dish limpy as opposed to crunchy crisp-in-the-outside-moist-and-chewy-in-the-inside texture of fried wings. Be my guest!
BCW by Heartland Brewery in New York City.
BCW Boston Pizza in Stoney Creek.
BCW Red Rocket in Hamilton.
Nothing beats home made cooking! Our very own recipe of Buffalo Chicken Wings.
BCW Honey's Restaurant, Niagara Falls, New York.
LEE
the one from boston pizza looks like the chili wings i love hehehe