travel to Buffalo

Culinary Travel

To Market, to Market to Buy Smoked Turkey Butts? Visiting Buffalo’s Broadway Market

It’s been a long time since I last visited Buffalo, N.Y.’s Broadway Market, the city’s beloved ethnic food market since 1888. When my great-grandmother traveled up from New York City to Buffalo by train in the 1950s to visit family, she enjoyed shopping the market because she could speak Slovack with vendors. As a kid, […]

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Culinary Travel

Food, Glorious Buffalo Food

My carry-on luggage yesterday included a packet of Sahlen’s hot dogs and rhubarb from my parent’s garden. My checked luggage included a couple bottles of former Buffalo Bills’ wide receiver Andre Reed’s all purpose sauce called “Over the Middle,” and my mom’s homemade corn relish and raspberry jam.

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Culinary Travel

Sal’s Lounge: Buffalo’s Secret for Chicken Wings

In honor of Super Bowl Sunday, I dedicate this post to one of football’s favorite food. A culinary delight from my hometown of Buffalo. The Buffalo chicken wing. Or, as those of us from Buffalo simply call them, wings. During my Christmas trip home in 2010, my family introduced me to a new place for […]

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Snapshots

Wordless Wednesday: Blustery Buffalo

Sorry for the iPhone photo but you get the idea: Just another winter day in Blustery Buffalo. So what do Western New Yorkers do to escape the cold? Eat, for one. Here’s a list of some of my favorite Buffalo foods.

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Snapshots Solo with Others

Wordless Wednesday: Merry Christmas 2009

Last year I spent Christmas up in Buffalo with family. Enjoy these shots from the Millard Fillmore House in East Aurora, N.Y. and the cafe called Taste (634 Main St, East Aurora, NY Tel: 716/655.1874) where I thought the neatest thing were the s’mores. Merry Christmas!

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