Summer 2021 Issue 05 the Greenbrier Conference Center Gets a Facelift, Page 9

THE GREENBRIER CONFERENCE CENTER GETS A FACELIFT, PAGE 9 SUMMER 2021 ISSUE 05 THE SPRINGHOUSE 03 07 09 24 22 TABLE OF CONTENTS Upcoming Events 01 Culinary Apprenticeship 03 Tips from the Pros 07 Conference Center 09 ArenaMend Classic 15 Tamarack: The Greenbrier Shoppe 17 Scenes from the Past 23 Fascinating Facts: Art Colony 24 Team Members Milestones 25 From Our Kitchen to Yours: Crusted Trout Filet 26 Who Visited: Media Guests 27 UPCOMING EVENTS Any day is a good day to visit The Greenbrier, as there’s always something exciting happening at America’s Resort. But if you are looking for a special event to fit an interest of your own, or perhaps someone you love, the calendar is filled with unique happenings throughout the year. Take a look at just some of the one-of-a-kind opportunities coming up in 2021 at The Greenbrier. FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND ARENAMEND CLASSIC JULY 2 - 4 OCTOBER 13-17 The Fourth of July holiday has long A new event that honors a long been a special celebration at The equine tradition at The Greenbrier Greenbrier as America’s Resort brings world-class show jumping, honors America’s birthday with a incredible horses and Olympic-level grand weekend full of activities. athletes to America’s Resort. With From family activities such as state-of-the-art live streaming bingo, fun runs and lawn games and global commentators, the to parades, concerts, food and ArenaMend Classic will bring millions fireworks, The Greenbrier celebrates of viewers and live spectators our great nation with three days of together for an exciting competition. festivities you don’t want to miss. Visit ArenamendClassic.com for more information. LABOR DAY WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 3 - 5 FALL FLAVORS Send summer out with a bang by OF APPALACHIA spending Labor Day weekend at The OCTOBER 16 Greenbrier. Enjoy mixology classes, The Greenbrier’s third annual Art Alive workshops and family Fall Flavors of Appalachia brings games or take in an evening show together some of the region’s most designed for the entire family. Stay loved wineries, distilleries and active with a fun run or relax by the breweries with the award-winning outdoor pool and soak up the sun as cuisine from America’s Resort. you enjoy breathtaking views of the Enjoy an afternoon filled with food, Greenbrier Valley. wine, spirits and music and take in the fall colors of the West Virginia SALUTE TO HEROES WEEKEND mountains. SEPTEMBER 11 - 13 Parades, concerts, tennis and HALLOWEEN WEEKEND special ceremonies will all be part of OCTOBER 29 - 31 a weekend honoring those who lost Join us for a weekend filled their lives on September 11, 2001, with costumes, mystery and and the first responders who walked entertainment as The Greenbrier toward danger on that tragic day celebrates Halloween 2021. and every day since. Children, and children at heart, will bask in the spirit of the holiday with events planned for the entire family. 1 | SPRING 2021 YOGA POWER RETREAT NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION NOVEMBER 12-14 DECEMBER 31- JANUARY 1 Come for a weekend of relaxation Say goodbye to 2021 and hello to and rejuvenation at The Greenbrier. 2022 in style with a celebration to With classes offered by Yoga remember at The Greenbrier. Guests Power’s registered yoga teachers, have been toasting the New Year at there will be opportunities for yogis America’s Resort for more than 200 of all technical abilities. Along with years! This New Year’s celebration beginner yoga, power yoga, yin yoga, promises to be a special one, as meditation, and even goat yoga and The Greenbrier presents a unique aerial yoga, the weekend will include collection of events for all ages to fun, late evening events, such as hip help make memories that will fill the hop yoga. year ahead. THANKSGIVING WEEKEND GREENBRIER CONCOURS NOVEMBER 24 - 28 D’ELEGANCE The Greenbrier has been bringing MAY 6-8, 2022 families together for more than The fifth annual celebration of a century, and there’s no better the automobile at The Greenbrier time to bring the entire group to includes a weekend filled with events The Greenbrier than Thanksgiving such as drives, dinners, Cars & Weekend. Enjoy amazing buffets Cocktails and the signature Sunday and family activities, then kick off the Concours, which brings close to Christmas season with the first tree 100 of the finest collector cars in lighting of the year. the world to the iconic front circle of The Greenbrier to be viewed WEEKENDS WITH SANTA and judged. To learn more, visit DECEMBER 3-4, 10-11, 17-18 GreenbrierConcours.com. Enjoy the twinkle in your child’s eyes as the jolly old elf himself GREENBRIER HALF- takes a break from his Christmas MARATHON preparations to spend some MAY 7, 2022 quality time with your loved ones at The Greenbrier Half-Marathon is a America’s Resort. From story time to luxury destination race like no other. breakfast in the Main Dining Room Participants will run exclusively and, of course, those cherished on the 11,000-acre grounds of photos that will live on for years to America’s Resort. Half-marathon, come, your Weekend with Santa will 10K and 5K participants will enjoy be filled with holiday memories you an incredible run with amazing won’t soon forget. views of the Allegheny Mountains and the entire property. The course CHRISTMAS is designed to limit elevation gain, DECEMBER 23-26 making the race enjoyable through Celebrate Christmas the old- the rolling mountains. To learn fashioned way with hot chocolate, more, visit CapstoneRaces.com/ carols, incredible cuisine and family. Greenbrier. From sleigh rides in the snow and ice skating in the shadow of the picturesque resort to the legendary holiday celebrations and worship service on Christmas Day, there’s no place as magical as Christmas at The Greenbrier. LIFE AS FEW KNOW IT™ Greenbrier.com | GREENBRIER MAGAZINE | 2 CULINARY APPRENTICESHIP Searching for an idea to help fill The Greenbrier kitchens The program is not a culinary school, but rather an with qualified culinarians, capable of upholding the intense, hands-on training program designed to refine lofty standards already in place at America’s Resort, and develop the skills necessary to be successful in any Executive Food Director Hermann G. Rusch came up position in the food and beverage industry. with a simple but brilliant concept. Today, the program features both the savory and pastry At that point, most chefs trained in classic cuisine disciplines. Chef Skelding directs the savory discipline, were European, and there was no place in the United while Chef Suteau heads the pasty students. The three- States to receive that training. So, with the help of year program uses a combination of lectures, demos, President and Managing Director E. Truman Wright, practicals and hands-on rotations in various outlets Rusch founded The Greenbrier Culinary Apprentice and throughout the property. By the end of the program, Training program in 1957 to train future Greenbrier chefs apprentices have developed skills including menu in The Greenbrier’s kitchens. planning, stocks, sauce making, gastronomy, classical cuisine, regional and international cuisine, food and wine Sixty-four years later, the program has graduated pairings, butchery, cold food displays and leadership more than 300 chefs, who have found work in different that allow them to pursue their dream jobs in the culinary disciplines around the world, and it is still going industry. strong, graduating top chefs every year under the direction of Executive Chef Bryan Skelding and Executive Each February, the program holds a graduation, Pastry Chef Jean Francois Suteau. during which the students participate in a hot food and cold food competition against fellow apprentices. Judges are brought in to critique, judge and present awards, and the students and their families are rewarded for a job well done with a Gold Service Ceremony. The first step in turning out quality graduates is finding the correct candidates in the beginning. That’s an assignment that Skelding takes seriously. Most candidates come via referrals from other chefs or culinary schools. The Greenbrier team looks for a candidate that has an Associate’s Degree or higher from an accredited culinary school, is a graduate of an ACF Certified Apprenticeship Program or has at least five years of experience in a fine dining restaurant. The program is not meant to teach an apprentice the basics of the kitchen. It’s meant to take a chef with some experience to an elite level. If a candidate has the background and shows a sincere interest, a phone interview with Chef 3 | SPRING 2021 Skelding or Chef Suteau is initiated, and the program at The Greenbrier for a year or two before entering the leaders walk the potential candidate through the program, and other times they will offer the candidate a process. spot in the upcoming class. “I almost want to talk them out of it,” Skelding explained “I look for someone who has a passion for cooking and of that initial phone conversation. “I let them know how learning and has a great work ethic,” Skelding explained. difficult it is, because you have to find those people who “A lot of times they are here working three or four hours are going to make it through. If you are going to invest before and after their shifts. in people and they are going to move here, I want them to know exactly what they are getting themselves into. “I’m looking for a person I feel I can mentor. They’re the I don’t want to waste your time, and I don’t want you to backbone of the kitchens.” waste my time.” Being extremely selective has helped the program’s Skelding or Suteau take the potential apprentice through leaders increase the graduation rate.

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