Chefs to Watch 2017: Jonny Hunter, Forequarter, Madison, Wis.

Texas-born, Madison, Wis.-based chef Jonny Hunter has a propensity for keeping things on the down-low. The chef got his start in 2000, serving $2 vegetarian meals from a church-basement coffee shop on the UW-Madison campus called the Catacombs until “the church realized we weren’t a religious organization,” he recalls. In 2005, he carried his subterranean theme over to his pop-up dinner and catering company, Underground Food Collective. 

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