GP Dinner #189  at Camp Earnest

Good People Dinners creates memorable dining events for corporate groups and communities. We design each event using our proven recipe for people and teams to form lasting, meaningful bonds: chef-prepared farm-to-table meals, thought-provoking speakers, facilitated discussions and an inspiring venue.If you’re looking for new interesting friends or collaborators, grab a ticket and come spend the evening with Good People Dinners in the Bay Area or at our retreat centerCamp Earnest, near Yosemite. The name speaks for itself, the people who come are incredible!Our typical participants are curious, creative intellectuals with a growth mindset, a passion for innovation, and a burning desire to make the world a better place.You’ll also enjoy appetizers and drinks, a family style farm-to-table meal prepared by a professional chef, a fascinating speaker, and a facilitated discussion.If this sounds like an experience where you would feel at home, please check out our upcoming events and join us!

Good People Dinners

Camp Earnest

WHAT: GP Dinner #189 at Camp EarnestWHERE: Camp Earnest, 21553 Cedar Springs Road, Twain Harte, CA 95383WHEN: 6:00 to 9:00pm on May 31st, 2025PLEASE 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 189th dinner on May 31st at Camp Earnest in Twain Harte, California.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.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. <a href="https://www.gpdinners.com/founding-principles.html" title="https://www.gpdinners.com/founding-principles.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">To learn more about us, please visit our Founding Principles page.</a>Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

<h3>ABOUT GP DINNERS:</h3> Good People 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.Since 2012 we have hosted over 850 dinners, overnights and retreats. We've produced events in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Miami, Austin, London, Singapore and deep in the Nevada desert.Every event includes speakers on a wide range of topics and chef prepared meals. <a href="https://www.gpdinners.com/founding-principles.html" title="https://www.gpdinners.com/founding-principles.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">To learn more about us, please visit our Founding Principles page.</a>In 2021 we established our own retreat venue in the mountains near Yosemite National Park, about 140 miles due east of San Francisco. <a href="https://www.campearnest.com" title="https://www.campearnest.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Camp Earnest is our mountain paradise</a> and has hosted about 55 companies and organizations and counting. These groups are usually technology-driven and impact oriented, often touching on the arts or education, addressing climate change and ecological regeneration or with ambitions to create other kinds of deep systemic change.

OUR SPEAKER:Our friend Brian Spears served as the former CEO of New Age Eats, a cultivated (lab-grown) meat company. This was an attempt to live his values by pioneering a dramatic intervention to address climate change, animal welfare, and public health. He was extremely goal oriented, focused and ambitious.When this company shut down, its IP sold off to others in the space, Brian did a radical reassessment of his priorities. With the same commitment and zeal he’d shown as a startup founder, he poured himself into exploration and learning, widening his aperture and exploring widely, both topically and geographically.To some degree, most of us oscillate this way through life, from focus and specificity to discovery, a more liminal place. How can we become comfortable with these phases, from narrow commitment to broad uncertain exploration? How do we support each other through times of commitment and times of reinvention?

OUR CHEF:Chef Anthony Giacobbe has been cooking local farm-to-table cuisine for over 20 years. He got his start working directly with farmers and produce grown at Esalen, California's legendary retreat center in Big Sur.Chef Anthony's cooking is a celebration of freshness, seasonality, and cultural fusion. His commitment to regenerative farms and his love for Asian cuisine continue to redefine the culinary landscape, offering a unique and delicious experience that stays true to the roots of California's rich agricultural heritage.Anthony also spent a year traveling through Latin America and has a great respect for all things taco.

<h3>OUR MENU:</h3><h3> </h3>TO START:Russian purple kale and and black plum saladMAINS:Herb brined Mary’s organic chicken with porcini gravySmashed Yukon gold potatoes, celery root and rosemaryBaby carrots, sumac and za'atar yogurt sauceCrispy asparagus with seed crunch and meyer lemonTO FINISH:Peach and apricot crisp with almond chantilly creamPlease email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Conversations at these dinners are off the record and risk-taking in our dialogues is strongly encouraged. Be respectful, learn from one another, explore new ideas and have fun.Cocktails start at 6:00 and our speaker kicks off at 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.If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact ramanfrey@gmail.comTo sign up for future events, please register atwww.gpdinners.comTo learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visitwww.campearnest.com

Above: A workshop in front of our lodge during The Neighborhood retreat at Camp Earnest.Please contact us if you'd like to host a group at <a href="https://www.campearnest.com" title="https://www.campearnest.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Camp Earnest </a>in the coming year. Average group size is 30, with a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 75 guests.<a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/VREDEsaySt6YqQ7X9" title="https://photos.app.goo.gl/VREDEsaySt6YqQ7X9" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Here are some photos of our recent guests, 45 folks from Conservation International who came for a Monday to Friday strategic planning retreat.</a>

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