Barbecue Guru Hugh Mangum - Celebrity Angels

Barbecue Guru Hugh Mangum - Celebrity Angels

Hugh Mangum grew up with the smell of barbecue smoke in the air. His dad, a stocky Texan who looked like Orson Welles, would spend weekends at the family home on Doheny Drive, West Hollywood, smoking meat, perfecting his own recipes. When Mangum senior died suddenly in 1999, Hugh took time off from a life drumming with bands and enrolled in The French Culinary Institute in New York, partly in an attempt to meaningfully connect to his late father…