John Fleer Biography

A local of Winston-Salem NC Fleer was named one of the ""Rising Stars of the 21st Century"" by the James Beard Foundation and is a four-time finalist for the James Beard ""Best Chef in the Southeast"" grant. Propelled by the ""way of life of food"" he encountered in Venice while a Religion and Philosophy major at Duke University John started his culinary vocation submissively working in kitchens as an approach to pay for graduate school in Religion and Culture at UNC. His energy touched off Fleer selected at the Culinary Institute of America. Following a cooperation at one of the CIA's eateries and a stretch as close to home gourmet specialist to Mary Tyler Moore Fleer joined Blackberry Farm where he filled in as Executive Chef from 1992 until 2007. Gourmet expert Fleer changes neighborhood fixings into world-class dishes. The one of a kind ""lower regions food"" he set up at Tennessee's Blackberry Farm meandered the line among refined and rough extravagant and natural. It concentrated on deciphering the local larder through old style and conventional strategies in the long run catapulting the retreat to the respect of Relais Gourmand. Under Fleer's administration, the Tennessee goal was respected by Zagat Survey in 2003 and 2004 as #1 Small Hotel in America and #2 Hotel Dining in America."

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