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The Enlightened Omnivore: What Coyotes, Crows, and Backyard Chickens Taught Me About Modern Life

Wed, February 11, 2026
Dinner Program
Steve Sabicer

Steve Sabicer, food writer and former butcher shop owner, draws on a life lived across farms and cities, boardrooms and butcher blocks, to examine what modern humans have gained—and lost—in our relationship with food and nature. Through stories from the butcher counter, urban agriculture, and observations of omnivores in the wild, Sabicer explores how adaptability, craft, and intention shape our food systems—and our humanity—challenging us to rethink efficiency, resilience, and what it truly means to connect, reconnect, and thrive.

Steve Sabicer is a writer, entrepreneur, and the creator of The Enlightened Omnivore, a weekly Substack newsletter and podcast exploring food, craft, and ecology in a rapidly changing world. 

More than a decade ago, he left a successful Fortune 500 career to apprentice as a butcher, eventually helping grow Electric City Butcher into one of Food & Wine magazine’s Top 100 butcher shops by sourcing exclusively from California farms practicing regenerative agriculture.

Sabicer is a graduate of Pomona College and has been featured in Food & Wine, FoodBeast, the Los Angeles Times, and the Orange County Register. He moved ten times before finishing high school and has traveled to more than forty countries. He now lives in Claremont, California, with his wife and three children and escapes whenever possible to his cabin in the Mojave Desert.

 

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