Event

Dinner Conversation: Talking Turkey with Bill Niman

Monday, October 28 6:30-8:30PM
$35 for 18 Reasons members; $45 for the general public

Talk to Mr. Bill with a mouth full of turkey.

Join Bill "Master of Meat" Niman and Bi-rite's butchers and chefs for a three-course family-style dinner and discussion about heritage breed turkeys (the cost, the care, the cooking). Bill joins us from BN RANCH, a seaside ranch in Bolinas, California, where he and his wife Nicolette raise their sons Miles and Nicholas, grass-fed cattle, heritage turkeys, and goats.

Menu

Radishes, Josey Baker Bread, Vella Butter, Jacobson Sea Salt

Heritage Turkey Confit
Caramelized Winter Squash, Baby Mustard Greens, Hazelnuts

Winter Fruit

*wine will be served

more about Bill Niman

Bill Niman is a cattle rancher and founder of the natural meat company Niman Ranch, Inc. Niman has been named "Food Artisan of the Year" by Bon Appetit and has been called the "Master of Meat" by Wine Spectator, "a pioneer of the good meat movement" by the New York Times, a "Pork Pioneer" by Food & Wine, and Plenty magazine selected him as among the nation's five leading "green entrepreneurs." He was a member of Pew's National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released recommendations for reform of the nation's livestock industry in April 2008. The Southern Foodways Alliance named him its Scholar in Residence for 2009, stating that he was "this country's most provocative and persistent champion of sustainably and humanely raised livestock." Bill co-authored The Niman Ranch Cookbook (Ten Speed Press, 2005), which was selected as one of the year's best cookbooks by the New York Times, Newsweek, and the San Jose Mercury News.