Tremont 647’s Andy Husbands will be among the sixteen contestants competing on the new season of Hell’s Kitchen, reports the Herald. Here’s why this is weird: Husbands is a great, well-respected, successful chef and Hell’s Kitchen isn’t exactly Top Chef. The show’s major draw is watching Gordon Ramsey yell at chefs who, much of the time, totally deserve it. Husbands has a successful restaurant that’s been open for over ten years! He’s a major fixture in the Boston restaurant world! For Pete’s sake, the man has a cookbook. The prize for winning HK (a head chef position at Araxi in Whistler, BC) seems like it’s not a huge gain for him, and as probably the highest-profile chef on the show, losing could be quite an embarrassment. The show debuts on July 21 at 8 p.m. on Fox and you can bet your bottom dollar we’ll be recapping it right here.
Bay State Chefs Don’t Mind if Gordon Ramsay Gives ’em ‘Hell’ [Herald]