{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Flets-talk-about-food.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fit-all-started-with-donuts-fjj32_ta","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"It All Started with Donuts","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/df525d81-1496-4c53-9525-28d43423675b/72e77122-4afc-4b09-8244-1ed9562a4180/andy-husbands-headshot-450x650-louisa-kasdon.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/ee836a39-450a-4849-bb0d-cceaeb1203f9\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"It All Started with Donuts\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Today we talk to chef Andy Husbands. Husbands now operates The Smoke Shop, a Boston-based emerging chain of BBQ restaurants. He’s a six-time cookbook author and–– importantly–– a Pitmaster. The co-founder of internationally recognized BBQ team which competed for 20 years and became the first non-Southern team to win the World Champions of BBQ Title at the Jack Daniels World Championship in Tennessee.\n\nI’ve been privileged to watch Andy morph from being a sort of enfant terrible to becoming an incredible force in in the Boston culinary scene. Andy is a person of immense management talents, as well as food talents. He could have gone in a million different directions. How did it become food?"}