WHAT: GP Dinner #188 | Peacebuilding with Alison Bing

WHERE: Jeremy's Loft, 54 Washburn Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

WHEN: 6:00 to 10:00pm on April 9th, 2025

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 188th dinner on April 9th at Jeremy's Loft in San Francisco.

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 Alison Bing is an author, and writer on art, culture, travel and food based in the Bay Area. Her forthcoming book investigates the role of craft in community building in our technologically accelerating world.

Alison has lived through divisive times in small town America and other contested territories throughout the world, including the U.K., China, India, Palestine, Israel, Uganda, and Ethiopia, among others. The daughter of a peace mediator and feminist social worker, Alison was raised to question convenient narratives — and as a young punk, found herself at home among outsiders everywhere.

With cultural frictions in the United States reaching a new peak, Alison believes that now is not the time to paper over important differences.

Through academic study and lived experience of conflict resolution, she finds that people don't need to agree to start peacebuilding, finding ways to share mutual aid, build civic institutions, and reshape our world with our own hands. Through witnessing successes and mistakes — including her own — in times of conflict, Alison's perspectives are uniquely globalist and profoundly appreciative of genuine diversity.

Tonight we’ll discuss peacebuilding, starting from Allison’s own stories. Even while starting from a point of profound disagreement, how might we actually make more progress toward shared respect and deeper community?

Above: Chef Sam Lippman at one of his many Camp Earnest feasts.

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 through each of his innovative menus.

OUR MENU:

TO START

Nut-Based Cheese

Vegan cheese made w/cashew, almond, and Brazil nuts rolled in herbs and seeds & peppers. Served with harissa, pickles, olives, crudités and seeded crackers.

MAINS

Mediterranean Chickpea Salad

Spiced garbanzo beans, artichoke, candied tomato, tender lettuces, carrot ribbons, red wine vinaigrette *feta cheese served on the side

Herb Crusted Agnello Farms Lamb w/Blackberry Cabernet Sauce

Served over rainbow chard

Spaghetti Squash w/Cashew Sage Cream

Za’atar Vegetables

Zucchini, fennel, and crispy potatoes w/oregano, sesame, marjoram, thyme, and olive oil

Cucumber Labneh

Thick yogurt sauce with dill, Persian cucumber, lemon, garlic, and sumac

TO FINISH

Dark Chocolate & Berry Pots

Avocado chocolate mousse with fresh raspberry, blackberry, coconut cream, and cardamom roasted pistachios

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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