Spice-Rubbed Picnic Chicken

Name: Spice-Rubbed Picnic Chicken
Ingredients: 5 pounds, bone-in chicken pieces (split breasts, drumsticks, and/or thighs, breasts cut into 3 pieces if large or halved if small), trimmed; 3 tablespoons packed, brown sugar; 2 tablespoons, kosher salt; 2 tablespoons, chili powder; 2 tablespoons, paprika; 2 teaspoons, pepper; 1/4-1/2 teaspoon, cayenne pepper

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Chicken

Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2006, America's Test Kitchen TV

How do you give cold picnic chicken great flavor without flabby, sticky skin? As with James Bond's martinis, the secret is shaken, not stirred.

SERVES 8

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