| Summary: | Chef Sallie Ann Robinson was born on August 4, 1958, on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, one of the last African Americans born on the island before natives began selling their ancestral land. She attended H E McCracken High School in Bluffton, South Carolina, graduating in 1975. Robinson gained national attention as the character named Ethel in author Pat Conroy's 1972 memoir on teaching on Daufuskie Island, The Water Is Wide. Robinson worked with other natives of the Island during the late 1980s to launch Daufuskie Island Day, observed on the fourth Saturday in June. She also started the Daufuskie Island Tours in June 2008, a boat ride from either Hilton Head or Savannah to the Daufuskie Island. Robinson's publications included Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way, and Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night. Members of Robinson's family were also featured in Daufuskie Island, A Photographic Essay by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.
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