Whole Hog Barbecue with Ricky Parker

My literal trial-by-fire initiation into whole-hog cooking.

From the Vault: Whole hog barbecue is a specialty of the rural South. Ricky Parker, who passed away in 2013, was the owner of B. E. Scott’s Barbecue in Lexington, TN. In 2004, he agreed to let me apprentice for a week–the hardest week of the year: July Fourth. Here’s my literal trial-by-fire education. (Scott’s is still open, and I encourage you to visi…