Arkansas Barbecued Duck

Because of its ample fat, duck (like goose) has been barbecued in the South for centuries, and none is so prized as the noble, green-headed mallards that migrate by the millions each year to the marshy rice fields of eastern Arkansas. Barbecue, in fact, is as much a religion in Arkansas as in North Carolina, and legend has it that at one particular Fourth of July feast, where everything from oxen to venison to bear was thrown on the grate over an open fire, barbecued duck was served for des