You may be completely over bacon (it’s certainly fashionable to say so), but if you’re any kind of pork-lover at all, it’s pretty hard not to get excited about whole roasted pig. With its crispy skin ...

Get your hacksaws ready (but not actually -- leave it to the pros), because we challenged Molly Baz to master whole animal butchery. In this episode, she was under the tutelage of her dear friend Lena ...

If you want to earn the full assortment of pitmaster merit badges, you have to meet a few benchmarks. Mastering the art of a traditional low-and-slow Texas brisket is a must. Tackling the massive ...

The appeal of the whole-roasted pig is obvious: it’s visually dramatic, you get to eat way more parts of the pig than are on offer in your standard pork entree (particularly useful if you’re ...

In today's Oregonian, I've contributed a FoodDay story about my adventures cooking a whole pig in my Caja China, a Cuban roasting box that can do 70 pounds of meat in less than four hours. Exciting, ...

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 ...

The oohs, the ahhs. The looks of wonder and hunger from most and inevitably disgust from some. The smartphone-wielding crowd — and there’s always a crowd — happily snapping photos and videos of the ...

As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, we've asked readers what they most want to know about its impact, prevention and treatment. This is an answer to one of those questions. You can find more answers ...

Monica Burton is the former deputy editor of Eater.com where she covered restaurants and food culture from 2017 to 2025. It can take up to 24 hours to cook a whole hog. For Rodney Scott, pitmaster at ...

After Truth BBQ’s popular brisket made the restaurant one of Texas’s most popular barbecue spots, pitmaster Leonard Botello IV decided to expand his menu by bringing Carolina whole hog barbecue to ...