Rodney Scott among Black BBQ pitmasters in the South claiming heritage
The American South Rodney Scott was six when he realized barbecue was more than a meal. Growing up in small town Hemingway, South Carolina, he watched the grown-ups slow cook hogs — it was always a hog, and always whole. Near the end, the men would hoist the pig, which weighed as much as a teenage boy, and turn it over to expose the meat that had been slowly cooking 10 to 12 hours, absorbing the smoke that rose as fat dripped onto the coals. "Every time that this hog was flipped over and sauced, people were all over it," Scott said. "I'm like, this thing is like a magnet. It just draws peop...