Black-barked smoked pork butt sliced on butcher paper

2024-03

Black-barked smoked pork butt sliced on butcher paper, 2024 — photograph by Ray Patrick

Food

Subject

A pork butt on white butcher paper, its bark burnt almost to charcoal and cracked into a grid, with one end carved down into pale pink slices that fan away across the paper. Ten days in brine and a long smoke are both legible in the picture — the cure in the colour of the meat, the smoke in the depth of the crust.

From the artist:

Pork butt brined for 10 days then smoked… I'm making sandwiches… @dickmasterson pull up