Country Roads Magazine - The Holy Hang

By Jordan Lahaye Fontenot

“When Mark C. Stevens hosts a barbecue, the food is merely—well okay, vitally—a tool for the thing he’s truly trying to foster: human connection. The spectacle of entire chickens, pineapples, cabbages, and fish heads hanging above a roaring fire is just one piece of the tableau, which includes the ancestrally familiar scent of the smoke, the comfort of the heat, the mesmerizing draw of the flickering flame, and the sense of communion between the fellow humans that surround it. “You can see it in people’s eyes,” said Stevens, who is a world traveler, fire cook, and filmworker. “You can just see this sense of pure wonder.” 

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