Enjoy a fun evening dining, sipping and learning as Chef Rusty Bowers, Pine Street Market prepares a four-part small plate menu. Learn new recipes and taste freshly prepared courses and wine.
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About Rusty Bowers
Rusty Bowers is the owner and lead butcher of Pine Street Market, a whole animal craft butcher shop in Avondale Estates, Georgia.
A graduate of the renowned Culinary Institute of America, Rusty began his career as a classically trained chef. Working in respected restaurant kitchens and fine dining restaurants from Jacksonville, Atlanta and Hawaii to Europe and the Middle East, Rusty eventually fell in love with the ancient art of whole animal butchery and charcuterie.
Rusty’s experiences abroad, in particular, had a profound effect on his approach to creating good, clean food. It wasn’t the techniques, but rather the approach to food that struck a chord with him.
In Europe, for instance, there was more of a connection to the food that people bought fresh from the local farmer or the butcher who practiced the time-honored traditions of whole animal butchery. This connection with food resulted in people being more connected with each other and the community.
In 2008, Rusty officially traded his chef’s coat for a butcher’s apron and launched Pine Street Market, a whole animal butcher shop specializing in the finest quality charcuterie, artisan sausages, and a variety of fresh cuts of locally-sourced, humanely and sustainably raised pork, beef, lamb and poultry hand-crafted in small batches.
Rusty is also a passionate educator. Using Pine Street Market as his base, Rusty leads a series of popular hands-on classes ranging from whole hog butchery and sausage-making to curing your own meats, as well as advanced butchering classes designed for chefs and experienced home-based meat enthusiasts.
When he’s not teaching classes, you can find him at local farmers’ markets to give cooking demonstrations or chat with local purveyors, in the production area of Pine Street Market working on a new creation to share with his loyal customers, or hanging out with his spouse, Summer, and their quirky cockapoo, Gracie.