WHAT: GP DINNER #182 | 6 Principles of Economic Reinvention w/Gil Friend

WHERE: Chez Willow 1640 9th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710

WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on October 5th, 2024

PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.

Please join us for our 182nd dinner on October 5th at our friend Willow's home in Berkeley.

Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful ​conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.

Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a wide range of topics and a chef prepared feast. To learn more about us, please visit our Founding Principles page.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

OUR SPEAKER:

Our friend Gil Friend is a sustainability OG and has been called “one of the top ten sustainability voices in the US” by The Guardian.

Gil was an early advocate of the business case for sustainability, working as a strategic sustainability consultant to companies ranging from Odwalla to Levi Strauss. Gil was also the first Chief Sustainability Officer for the city of Palo Alto. He co-hosts the podcast Living Between Worlds, and serves as ontological/ecological coach helping world-changers change worlds.

Gil will share the two questions that have gripped him over the last ten years:

• What might be possible if we did business—and everything else—as though we actually belonged to the living world?

• Why isn’t there a Mondragon in America?

He’ll introduce the six “structural defects of capital-ism” that stand in the way of a world that works for all life (and that undercut the current “reforming capitalism” wave). And we will explore the very different strategies that this diagnosis prescribes.

OUR CHEF:

Our friend Sam Lippman is a Bay Area chef with over 15 years experience working within innovative companies and kitchens. He has cooked at Google, Cafe Soulstice, and he created and lead the food program at Airbnb from 2011 through 2016.

Chef Sam just wrapped up his work in R&D and Marketing at Hooray Foods, where he was the company’s first hire. Sam’s food tends towards paleo, plants, and puns. Most importantly, he hopes everyone has a great time and learns something new with each meal.

Below: Chef Spencer Hochman's farro salad.

OUR MENU:

HAPPY HOUR

Malai Kofta - paneer & potato balls w/roasted tomato curry and cilantro mint chutney

*contains dairy, cashew, coconut

Basil Watermelon Spears w/citrus, sumac & chili

TO START:

Two Dog Farms Fall Lettuces - curried squash, crispy chickpea, tamarind vinaigrette

Cucumber Raita *Contains dairy, coriander “crack” w/sunflower seeds, cilantro mint chutney

MAINS:

Chana Daal

Herbaceous Basmati Rice

Golden Chicken in a yogurt marinade w/cilantro and raisin

*contains poultry & dairy

Pumpkin Curry with Tofu, zucchini, sunburst squash

*contains soy & coconut

Roasted Cauliflower w/radish pickles and sweet peppers

TO FINISH:

Chia & Chai - spiced chia pudding w/blue and golden berries, coconut whip

*dairy-free, **contains coconut

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.

Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.

If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact ramanfrey@gmail.com

To sign up for future events, please register at

www.gpdinners.com

To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.

www.campearnest.com

Below: Chef Matt Garcia offers up a gorgeous salad with watercress, pickled shallots and watermelon.