1. Clear an area of level ground of any combustible leaves or sticks. Lay out a two-layer base of blocks as shown. Build a fire inside the pit. After the coals have burned down, divide them into ...

Sam Jones has become a Carolina barbecue legend by carrying on his family’s tradition of cooking whole hogs. “The way I look at it, I’m the fourth generation of my family that’s been doing this right ...

I was skeptical when I learned Rodney Scott was opening a restaurant in downtown Nashville. It's no surprise that the accomplished pitmaster would want to expand his growing barbecue empire to ...

Zach Parker was a few weeks shy of his twenty-second birthday, in 2013, when his father, Ricky Parker, passed away. Ricky was a legendary whole-hog pitmaster and the owner of B. E. Scott’s Bar-B-Que, ...