Rodney Scott (pitmaster)

Rodney Scott (born 1971) is an American chef and whole-hog barbecue pitmaster from Hemingway, South Carolina.

[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.

[5] In 2016 he and his father quarreled and he left the family business to partner with Pihakis.

[10] Daniel Vaughn of Texas Monthly wrote that Scott was "an undeniable master of the pit".