A Whole Hog Barbecue Tour

It's very rare to find a barbecue joint that cooks whole hogs these days, and for a long time it looked like the practice might fade away altogether. In just the past two years, though, there's been a bit of a rally, and whole hog cooking is starting to make a come back

Eastern North Carolina and the Pee Dee region of South Carolina have long been the last bastion of this traditional form of barbecue, but now a few ambitious cooks have undertaken the art of cooking whole pigs in other places, too. Today, whole hog joints can be found in Atlanta, central Tennessee, and even way up north in Brooklyn. Here's our map of the whole hog joints that are keeping the wood fires burning today.