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Ends 7/31/2020 ll JULY - CHICAOREADER 3 Search the Reader’s online database of thousands of Chicago-area restaurants FOOD & DRINK at chicagoreader.com/food. continued from 3 bills between ironworking. Applestone, meat was sold out of refrigerated beautiful animal and it comes back all hacked his upcoming debut with mesmerizing black- But in 2014 he decided he hadn’t seen vending machines for customers who knew up,” says Hanft. He says Howe said to him, “If and-white shots of the deer processing work enough of the world, so he sold his house and exactly what they wanted, but the Local there was ever a time you would be interested he was doing for local hunters in order to headed east to a job on a bridge deck in New Butcher Shop owners Aaron and Monica Roc- in coming back I would do everything I could raise capital. His personal account had even Haven, Connecticut. But something kept pull- chino went above and beyond, “to where peo- to help you in terms of lining up farms.” more intriguing stu : venison liver sausage; ing him back to food. ple want you to cut a pound of dog food into Hanft decided to give it a go last spring, shaved corned beaver with cabbage, beaver A friend from PQM was interviewing for eight individually wrapped pieces so they’re when he returned home and applied for a stock-horseradish velouté, and caviar; dry- a job with Josh Applestone, a pioneer in the exerting no energy to feed their animal.” commercial line of credit from a local bank to aged squab with Asian pear, Thai chili, and craft butchery movement, who was open- Hanft took enough away from each ex- build out a space on Gri¤ th’s main drag next tamari-cured egg yolk. ing his namesake company selling organic, perience that he began to hatch a plan for a to a deli and down the street from a taxider- What the heck was going on in Griffith, grass-fed custom-cut meats in New York’s shop of his own. On a visit back home, he met mist. That’s when he started processing deer Indiana? Hudson Valley. He invited Hanft to a barbecue Steve Howe, a former schoolteacher who was (and beaver and wild boar). Turns out Hanft has worked as a line cook, Applestone was throwing, and the boss was raising hops and hogs on 30 acres of farm- Howe and Hanft developed