This is from inside the sheds with the pits in B.E. Scott’s Barbecue, where RIcky Parker cooks whole hogs– there were 30 of them (about 5100 pounds of meat) cooking in his pits today for the 4th. Ricky is the primary subject of Joe York’s film Whole Hog.
Be warned, though: the local whole hog barbecue scene around Lexington depends on one particular slaughter house, which has been foreclosed upon. It is apparently about to close, and will open again in 2 weeks. So Ricky Parker is taking 2 weeks off…
This is another iPhone photo.


How’d your hog cookin’ go?
It went great once it quit raining. keeping fires going in the rain is not recreation!
I’ve got pictures to post later.
Scott’s is open. Just called them. Going this Saturday to get some of the best, if not THE best, barbecue I’ve ever had. Thanks, Joe.