R odney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ has become a South Carolina institution, a testament to its founder's journey from a small-town pitmaster to a nationally recognized, James Beard Award-winning chef ...

Rodney Scott knows barbecue. He's been perfecting his whole hog South Carolina barbecue since he was 11 years old while working at his family’s barbecue stop in Hemingway, SC.

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 ...