Whole hog cooking used to be a way of life for small communities between Memphis and Nashville. These days, North and South Carolina are better known for this particular barbecue art form, but sizzling hogs over wood coals was thriving practice in Tennessee just a couple decades ago. Today, thanks to a lack of hog supply and the labor required for the cook, only three businesses in all of Tennessee still serve whole hog barbecue.* According to the BBQ Hub, there are only 27 joints in the U.S. still smoking whole hog over wood. Six of those are locations of Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint, which has four outposts throughout Tennessee and one in both West Virginia and Kentucky. I stopped in at the new downtown Nashville location of Martin’s,…View Original PostThe post West Tennessee Whole Hog appeared first on Texas Monthly.