Rodney Scott (born 1971) is an American chef and whole-hog barbecue pitmaster from Hemingway, South Carolina. In 2018 Scott was named Best Chef: Southeast by the James Beard Foundation, only the second pitmaster to win a James Beard chef award.
Rodney Scott (born 1971) is an American chef and whole-hog barbecue pitmaster from Hemingway, South Carolina. In 2018 Scott was named Best Chef: Southeast by the James Beard Foundation, only the second pitmaster to win a James Beard chef award.
Scott was born in 1971 in Philadelphia to Roosevelt and Ella Scott. [1] [2] He is an only child. [1] In 1972 the family relocated to the Pee Dee area of South Carolina, where the family ran several businesses including a gas station, a variety store, a farm, and a barbecue restaurant. [1] [3] At around eleven, Scott first started barbecuing at his parents' business, Scott's Variety Store + Bar-B-Q in Hemingway, South Carolina, where at first the family would smoke a whole hog each week, expanding as demand increased until they were smoking seven or eight hogs a day. [1] [4] At 17 he was working for the family business full time. [5] [3]
In 2009 the family business was profiled by Southern food historian John T. Edge. [1] [5] [6] In 2011, Scott took over the family barbecuing business. [1] A sometime customer, Nick Pihakis, told him he was undercharging for his food. [5] In 2016 he and his father quarreled and he left the family business to partner with Pihakis. [3] [5]
Scott opened Rodney Scott's BBQ in Charleston in 2017 and in Birmingham in 2019. [1] [4] As of March, 2021, a third location was set to open in Atlanta. [3] A fourth location opened in December 2021 in Alabama.
In 2018 Scott was named Best Chef:Southeast by the James Beard Foundation, only the second pitmaster to win a James Beard chef award. [7] [8] He was featured on Chef's Table in 2020. [4] [7] The Washington Post called him a barbecue celebrity. [1] In 2020 he was nominated to the Barbecue Hall of Fame. [9] Texas Monthly called him "a whole hog legend". [10] Daniel Vaughn of Texas Monthly wrote that Scott was "an undeniable master of the pit". [11]
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