Hobbs Shore, the man who brought smoked meats to the Bay Area's burgeoning upscale restaurant scene in the '80s, has died at the age of 86. Quoth Boulevard's Nancy Oakes: "It was the beginning of the first wave of the food revolution. He came in with real, authentic (smoked meats), unpumped and unprocessed, and he was like that, too - not pumped and not processed." [Chron]
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