Cut/Chop/Cook

Last week, MDP producer Joe York traveled to New York to screen his latest short documentary Cut/Chop/Cook at the Big Apple BBQ Block Party and at the Southern Foodways Alliance’s Potlikker Film Festival NYC. The film profiles Rodney Scott of Scott’s Bar-B-Q in Hemingway, South Carolina. Says Scott, “We only cook with wood and I’m so sure that we only cook with wood because we go out and chop it ourselves.” Monday through Wednesday, you’ll find Scott doing just that, cutting down trees and chopping wood, and Thursday through Saturday he burns that wood down into coals that he uses to cook a half-dozen whole hogs every night. This film was produced by the University of Mississippi’s Media & Documentary Projects Center & the Southern Foodways Alliance, with funding from the Union Square Hospitality Group. Check it out….