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Stepping into Heisman trophy winner Herschel Walker’s 19th-floor condo in Uptown, you are immediately struck by a Picasso-esque portrait of a woman with two faces.

“We all have different faces that we show to the world,” said Walker, who created a stir last year when he published a memoir revealing his struggle with dissociative identity, or multiple personality disorder.

Sunday, Walker will face the regional food industry as founder and chief executive of Renaissance Man Food Services Inc., one of the largest minority-owned meat processors in the nation.

He’s one of the key draws at the Southwest Foodservice Expo, a three-day trade show at the Dallas Convention Center that begins Sunday.

Walker, still youthful looking at 47, knows he’ll need to talk about football. That’s what most people want to hear, said the storied former running back for the Dallas Cowboys. He also plans to slip in some talk about God. But chiefly, the food show gives him a chance to showcase his life away from the gridiron.

“People that knew me in the sports world have no idea what I can do,” he said.

“I think people are shocked that, being a football player, that I can even think,” he chuckled. “People love to talk to you about the game, but they … don’t consider that this [business] is something that I started, that I built.”

Renaissance Man, which is based in Savannah, Ga., has more than 100 employees and posted 2008 sales of $70 million, Walker said. The company co-owns a chicken processing plant in Siloam Springs, Ark., and chicken accounts for 70 percent of the company’s sales, he said.

Renaissance Man also sells precooked ribs and other items under the Herschel’s Famous 34 and H. Walker Foods brands.

The food is largely sold to hotels, including some Hilton properties and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, as well as to restaurants, hospitals and the military, he said.

Two weeks ago, Walker launched a retail line, the Mama’s Bakin’ brand. The first product, frozen corn bread, is due in grocery stores this summer.