Philadelphia professor turns his Tex-Mex barbecue passion into a popup at Cadence Restaurant

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The line between an amateur’s passion and professional aspirations can get pretty blurry inside the fragrant cloud that hovers around a smoker at midnight. And R. Scott Hanson is hardly the first homesick Texan to find solace by taking the pepper-encrusted bark of a big brisket into his own hands.