Chef, Farmer & Rancher; Co-owner of Black Pig Meat Co.

Duskie Estes is a chef, farmer, and rancher behind Black Pig Meat Co alongside her husband, John Stewart. Black Pig Meat Co. is known for their award winning pasture raised bacon, snout-to-tail products, and farm-to-table food truck, the Black Piglet. They lost their beloved restaurant, ZAZU Kitchen+Farm, in Sonoma County, California in a flood in 2019 after 19 years of raking in the awards: TOP 10 best new restaurants and TOP 100 restaurants in San Francisco Chronicle, Top 50 Restaurants in the Bay Area by SF Magazine, Michelin Recommended in the SF Guide for over a decade, Rising Star Chef Awards for Sustainability, Slow Food Snail Awards, King and Queen of Pork at Aspen Food & Wine, and multiple Good Food Awards. She has been featured on Food Network’s Next Iron Chef, Guy’s Grocery Games, Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, Guy’s Ranch Kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay, and Alex v. America as well as on PBS, OWN, and Discovery+. They raise pigs, goats, chicken, ducks, and sheep on their farm. 

Previously in Seattle, Duskie was voted City Search’s Best Chef and Palace Kitchen was awarded the nation’s top 50 restaurants by Gourmet Magazine under her leadership. She co-authored Tom Douglas’s Seattle Kitchen, receiving the 2001 James Beard Award. She is a James Beard Foundation Awards Committee and Boot Camp for Policy & Change Alum. Together, Duskie, Crista & John have riden over 3500 miles for Chefs Cycle | No Kid Hungry over the past 5 years.