Sunday, 24 January 2010
WACS Education Seminar, Current and Future WACS Programs
John Clancy, Chair of the Education Committee gave a brief presentation on the Committee’s activities to date and mandate going forward, including the development of Sanitation Guidelines for culinary competitions, Train the Trainer, the Masterchef program, Certifications and development of a Recognition Program for culinary programs. There were many points of discussion and suggestions including development of education programs (especially for some chefs in some countries that don’t have the funds to go to school); expanding educational programming for congresses with many demonstrations and hands-on workshops, developing a web-based database of articles from chefs on various topics; and offering/facilitating mentorships and stages. Suggestions/questions? Contact the Education Committee, email information for all committee members is on the worldchefs.org website.
Highlights from Continental Directors' and Committees' Reports
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Arnold Tanzer – Continental Director Africa/Middle East - A number of changes in communications Ghana, Namibia and Saudi Arabia. Endeavoured to represent the region fairly. In his region he will be hosting a judging seminar in Dubai in 2010. A lot of work still to be done in the region done by volunteers. Africa and Middle East need more support.
Brendan O’Neill – Continental Director, Europe North (16 countries) – spoke about all the regions activities and accomplishments, including:
Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland & Denmark – for their strong Nordic alliance, all working together. The Nordic Conference was held in Iceland, and the Nordic Chef of the Year was selected.
Ireland, England, Scotland & Wales - Ireland hosted the Semi Finals of Northern Europe Global Chef (Won by Norway); Scotland hosted SCOTHOT, Junior International Teams (Won by Team USA); Wales hosted the Dragon Competition; England looking at making Hotelympia a WACS competition in the future and England are in talks with Craft Glide of Chefs to come under their umbrella.
Estonia – Young, strong organisation, still developing. Latvia hosted Riga competition, and many in the region still developing their organizations, communications and programs.
Glenn Austin, Continental Director, Pacific Region – Spoke passionately about focusing on other culinary areas in addition to competitions, including food awareness, skills, hygiene and demonstrations is how we will move forward. Implemented programs such as Global Chefs Challenge, Education etc. We have now doubled in size. Need to focus on member participation. Important to support our sponsors. Presidents making a difference – Pacific Venatu Mohammed Farouk in Fiji – Guam – active with regional food festivals.
Jorge E. Monti de Valsassina – Continental Director, Americas . His region represents 18 countries thanked Chilean President Michele Bachelet understands and supports our organization and what we do.
Reinhold Metz – Continental Director, Europe Central - In South Tyrol awarded 69 chefs with WACS Master Chef Diploma and Master Chefs Chain under the umbrella of the Governor of South Tyrol. In addition, the Global Chef continental competition was held in Budapest, and In Oct 2009 visited the Hungarian Chefs Day in Gyoer, Hungary and had 15,000 people participating and tasting local food from 18 different Hungarian Regions. Reinhold also advised for health and personal reasons he will be resigning as Continental Director.
Srecko Koklic - WACS Continental Director, South Europe - WACS European conference in Croatia, Split – had a great conference with many countries presenting including Austria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italyt, Iceland, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Tirol, Sweden, Wales, WACS and for the first time Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia.
Robert Oppeneder, Chair of the Culinary Committee – first meeting was held in Erfurt after a reception by the Mayor. They decided on various categories and fees for WACS endorsed categories. The word ‘guidelines’ was replaced by ‘rules’ for endorsed shows. Rules can be found on the WACS website. Hygiene rules were championed by Paulino Schembri from the Educational Committee which were adopted and are also on the website. Upcoming seminars include February 2010, in Dubai, April 2010 in Singapore, October 2010 in Moscow (Russia) and November 2010 in Luxembourg.
John Clancy – Education Committee Chair
We may be separated by different time zones by using conference calls on skype. Deep appreciation to Gissur Gudmundsson to the outstanding Iceland Chef Association for hosting our face to face meeting. Each member has the passion and dedication to the committee. While here in Chile all members have made the effort to be here in the meetings to offer advice and support to all the countries. Our committees aims and accomplishments include: developing an education portal and encouraged any WACS member to contribute any article relevant on education; to involve the Education Committee in content for The Bill Gallagher Junior forum and congresses; to identify criteria and guidelines for the WACS scholarship programmes; to develop, own and run a certification program. We also have developed sanitation guidelines for competitions, led by Paulino Schembri which were accepted and are now implemented. We will also seek to develop WACS recognition for culinary programs.
Mike Baskette encouraged everyone to visit the WACS website and see all the activities of Train the Trainer. Many thanks to Custom Culinary and Chef Meiner. for supporting Train the Trainer program.
Norbert Schmidiger, WACS treasurer receives the President's award
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Our Friend and Tresurer, Norbert Schmidiger received the presidents award from WACS president Gissur Gudmundsson.
His outstanding work in the interest of WACS and his perseverence has helped build a stronger organisation said president Gissur Gudmundsson.
Sunday Evening Reception
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Delegates, spouses and sponsors from 88 countries emerged into the sunshine and splendour of Santiago, Chile. We all met for a reception at the Sheraton hotel. Old friends got reacquainted, new friends were made while enjoying the hospitality of the Chilean Gastronomy Association, host of the 34th WACS congress.
Fernando A. De la Fuente Espina, President and Jacqueline Rodriguez Echevarria, General Manager of the Chilean Gastronomy Association, ACHIGA gave us a warm welcome. Gissur Gudmundsson, President of WACS officially opened the ceremony and introduced Claus Meyer and Brian Cotterhill who inducted 10 new Honorary Members of WACS.
New Honorary Members
Jorge E. Monti - Brazil,CD America
Armand Steinmetz, Luxembourg Central Europe
István Petö, Hungary - Central Europe
Patrick Diethelm - Swiss, Central Europe
Ondrej Antovszky - Slovakia, Central Europe
Konrad Spinell, South Tyrol/Italy
Manjit Singh Gill, India - Asia
Tahir Amiraslanov, Azerbaijan - North Europe
Paul Moore - Australia Pacific
Eddy Fernades Monte - South America
Please join us in congratulating our new honorary members and thanking them for their extraordinary achievements.
General Education Programme
| 1000 - 1700 | WACS Congress 2010 Registration CasaPiedra convention centre |
| 1000 - 1700 | All member countries to register with WACS Treasurer and WACS Secretary to ensure eligibility to vote. CasaPiedra convention centre |
| 0900 - 1200 | Welcome-City Tour of Santiago de Chile Depart from CasaPiedra |
| 1300 - 1600 | Welcome-City Tour of Santiago de Chile Depart from CasaPiedra |
| 1830 - 1930 | Honorary Members meeting Hotel Sheraton |
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Cocktail Party - Official Opening at the Sheraton Hotel
Sheraton Hotel Santiago Chile
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Junior Chefs Forum Programme
| 0900 - 1200 | Welcome-City Tour of Santiago de Chile Depart from CasaPiedra |
| 1000 - 1700 | WACS Congress 2010 Registration CasaPiedra convention centre |
| 1300 - 1600 | Welcome - City Familiarisation Tour of Santiago de Chile City |
| 1000 - 1700 | All member countries to register with WACS Treasurer and WACS Secretary CasaPiedra convention centre |
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 Junior Chef Briefing at the SheratonTHE VALUE OF NETWORKING - Patron’s Speech Dr Billy Gallagher (South Africa) and Introduction to Junior Forum Sponsors. View Photo Gallery |