The guest of honor at Blake and Donna Bender’s Fourth of July cookout tipped the scales at 191 pounds. A true life of the party, he showed up first and stuck around till the karaoke screen went black.

SCENES FROM WHOLE HOG ROASTS PAST: Pork for everyone. Event wrangler Brian Kearns, of Simply the Best Catering and the Canvas restaurant at the Arkansas Arts Center, encourages anyone who has ever ...

Canada-based PigOut Catering is looking to bring its specialized brand of catering with over-sized roasters and spinning whole pigs to northeastern Louisiana as part of the company’s expansion into ...

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 ...

Imagine a party, now imagine that party with the addition of a whole pig on a spit spinning over a propane-fueled fire. The second party is better, argues Anne Dickson. Dickson and her husband Alan ...

When my brother-in-law Ryan was about to turn 40, his wife asked him what he wanted for his birthday. His answer was an unequivocal two words: pig roast. Ryan and another brother-in-law, Everett, had ...

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