Edisto Barbecued Mustard-Sesame Chicken

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4 to 6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

  • About

Of all the Sea Islands off the South Carolina coast, only Edisto has resisted, indeed rejected, the massive development that has completely transformed Hilton Head, Kiawah, St. Helena, and most others. To attend a family oyster roast or barbecue on pristine Edisto Beach, as I have several times, is not only to move back a century in time but to witness the culinary rituals in their most primitive forms. Typically, barbecuing is done on grates over live wood or charcoal fires in open pits, a