Whole Hog BBQ with a Rocket Scientist

Whole Hog BBQ with a Rocket Scientist

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Voting Rights, Whole Hog BBQ, School Segregation

Episode: Voting Rights, Whole Hog BBQ, School Segregation

  • Sep 18, 2020 8:00 pm
  • 16:02 mins

Guest: Howard Conyers, Whole Hog Pitmaster, Engineer, NASA Stennis Space Center As any barbecue aficionado knows, Texas barbecue is not the same as North Carolina barbecue is not the same as Kansas barbecue. The meats, sauces and cooking methods all vary. Howard Conyers’ technique is among the rarest: he smokes a whole hog in a pit, the way indigenous and enslaved people in America were cooking barbecue long before white celebrity chefs were crowned the “kings of barbecue.”  When School Districts Splinter, Segregation Rises (1:25:07)