Curried Orange Chicken

Nobody is more Southern than my sister, and when I complimented her on the “Indian” chicken dish she once served at her home in Wilmington, North Carolina, she looked at me with puzzlement and said, “Honey, I don’t know what on earth you’re talking about. This recipe goes back almost three hundred years, to the Cape Fear rice planters, and every friend I have in Wilmington has her special version.” So much for this particular ethnic influence on Southern cooking, I figured, fully bewildered