Held at Westchester Country Club, New York 19 January 2004

Present Chairman
– Chef Reinhold Metz, Germany

Secretary
– Chef Graham Hawkes, New Zealand

Guests
– Chef Ferdinand Metz, USA
– Chef Ed Leonard, Host Chef, Westchester Country Club, President American Culinary Federation
– Chef Brendan O’Neil, Panal of Chefs of Ireland, Director of 2004 Congress, Organiser World Junior Forum

Member
– Chef Otto Weibel, Singapore
– Chef Steve Jilleba, U.S.A.
– Chef Tony Jackson, Scotland
– Chef Travis Smith, I.M.C.O

Apologies
– Chef Heinz Brunner, South Africa
– Chef Norbert Schmidiger
– Chef Aloyse Jacoby, Luxemburg

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1. Welcome From Chairman, Mr Reinhold Metz

Chef Metz welcomed all members and guests and thanked the members for the diligent work that they had completed since the previous culinary committee meeting held at Woodlands Park Hotel, London.

Chef Metz mentioned he was very happy to have the last meeting of the committee during this term of the Presidium at the Westchester Country Club, home of the American Culinary Team and also delighted to have guest chef’s from the American Culinary Federation which is standing for the WACS Presidium for the next 4 years.

Chairman Metz also thanked the members for taking the time out of their busy schedules to attend this important meeting.

2. Minutes of Previous Meeting

As these had been previously circulated to all members they were taken as read and moved by the Secretary they be confirmed as a true and accurate record of this previous meeting held at Woodlands Park Hotel in London on Saturday 30 June & Sunday 1 July 2001.

Moved Chef Graham Hawkes, seconded Chef Tony Jackson. Carried unanimously.

3. Matters Arising from the Minutes of the Previous Meeting

As all matters with the exception of a spelling mistake, arising were already Agenda items these were carried forward until such time as they come up on the Agenda.

4. Correspondence Inwards

4.1. Letter from Mr Simon Smotkowicz informing the Culinary Committee they had made a decision not to go ahead with ICE 2005.

4.2. Email from Jamie Castellon regarding the possibility of having a WACS endorsed competition in Spain. This will be organised by a group other than the member group from Spain.

5. Correspondence Outwards

5.1. Memo to Mr Tony Jackson regarding judging at Hotel Olympia from Secretary General.

5.2. Chairman of the Culinary Committee re Sanction for Ice 2005.

5.3. Continental Director from Americas re competition seminar and the review of the two year period when requesting for culinary committee sanction for competitions.

5.4. Continental Director Europe regarding the possible reduction of the age of juniors to 23 years along with the age limit of international judges as members of the International Judging list. Also the possibility of sanction for a group in Spain who are not members of WACS, also regarding a question from Italy as to the use of the judging pool.

5.5. ICE 2005 confirming WACS sanction for the event.

5.6. Mr Bernd Uben regarding his inclusion into the International Judging list.

5.7. Mr Eli Fudida from Israel regarding inclusion into the International Judges list.

5.8. Chairman of the Culinary Committee re queries following the Board meeting held in Luxemburg and suggested action.

5.9. As all the above were related to Agenda items these were accepted and left for further comment.