Serve this cucumber salad as a first course or side dish for a potluck ... about 5 minutes. Set hot shrimp cooking water aside. While water comes to a boil, slice cucumber in half lengthwise.

Out of an original field of 16 different dishes―including roasted oysters and deviled crab―Lowcountry Boil made it into the finals as the underdog and eventually bested Shrimp 'n' Grits ...