Home » News » Features » President's Message
Message from WACS President
The Road Ahead
Friday, 08 July 2011
|
|
ICELAND
My team and I have a strong determination and a vision. At the beginning of our term in the WACS Presidium in May 2008, we decided to found a magazine for WACS to provide a tool which encourages chefs from around the world to communicate with each other. We launched WorldChef magazine in January 2009. It was not easy. Today, it is read in many of the WACS countries by tens of thousands people. This magazine is our effort in putting together exciting, informative and encouraging material on various subjects to network, share information and inspire chefs globally.
We are passionate about this Magazine and the various messages we send through it. We want to share these messages as widely as possible. I believe it is very important for us chefs to give the future great thought and look into all opportunities which are given to us and show us how we can be part of shaping this world and creating sound communities. This can give us the opportunity to be in the front seat when discussions about food safety, sustainability, how to feed the planet, how to deal with diseases related to food and handling of food in general.
This strategy meeting we held in June gave us the opportunity to look into the WACS future and where it should head to in the future. This work is ongoing this summer and will be presented to the WACS Board in South Africa in August and afterwards to our member countries. We the Board are dedicated to see WACS grow, not only in membership, but also in strength so as to have a powerful voice within the culinary industry. Many items needed to be looked at. For example, securing the permanent office in Paris with more staff to handle our growing work load; being the voice and handling body of educational opportunities in the world and ensuring global standards of culinary education; ensuring ongoing support to future chefs so that our young chefs will be active WACS members in the future; ensuring the development of a good foundation of World Chefs Without Borders and connecting with other humanitarian groups to strengthen our opportunities to help chefs in need around the world; Making sure that standards in competitions will be solid, clear and accessible in all parts of the world and judged by professionals coming out of the WACS system and ensuring that food waste, sanitation and safety in competitions will be honored in every WACS endorsed competitions. All this is future work our team is working hard to define these days.
We are boldly devoted to this community of chefs. We think it is amazing. We do not want to see this disappear, we want to see it grow to its highest potential. We know that making these changes that have been happening in the last few years is sometimes worrying and even painful, but it is a great adventure we want to be a part of for the advancement of this organisation with along for the ride. This is our journey together.
More Articles
- The world is changing and so must we. added 18 March 2013
- Get ready for an exiting year: added 14 January 2013
- Dear friends and colleagues, added 19 December 2012
- Dear chefs around the world added 16 November 2012
- Culinary October added 17 October 2012
- International Chefs Day 2012 Focus on "How to Feed the Planet in the Future" added 10 September 2012
- Are we using our time right? added 24 August 2012
- A Step Forward added 15 June 2012
- Thank you for a congress to be remembered added 15 May 2012
- WACS is Bringing Worlds Together added 11 April 2012
- The Crossroad added 16 February 2012
- Our Responsibility as WACS Members added 13 January 2012
- Looking Back and Looking Forward added 21 December 2011
- Education is Our Future added 21 November 2011
- A Focus On Sustainable Cuisine For The Year 2011 And International Chefs Day added 04 October 2011
- World Chefs Tour Against Hunger added 16 August 2011
- added 13 June 2011
- A FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE CUISINE FOR THE YEAR 2011 AND INTERNATIONAL CHEFS DAY added 01 May 2011
- added 11 February 2011
- "Busy Times for Busy People" added 12 November 2010
- Do we really care? added 08 October 2010
- Support added 15 July 2010
- "Go Green with Chefs" added 11 May 2010
- From the Land of Fire and Ice added 19 April 2010
- "World Chefs Without Borders" added 09 March 2010
- Gracias - Thank You - Merci - Danke -Takk! added 12 February 2010
- Raising Membership Awareness added 12 January 2010
- Food For Thoughts Over the Holiday Season added 11 December 2009
- A NEW WEBSITE! added 28 September 2009
- August Message from President added 31 July 2009
- A Wonderful Summer Beginning added 02 July 2009
- 34 Weeks to Go. Are We Ready? added 01 June 2009
- We Are on the Right Path! added 29 April 2009
- Can you feel it? I do! added 13 March 2009
- An Action Packed Month added 14 February 2009
- Great Start to a New Year! added 15 January 2009
- When in Rome added 05 December 2008
- Good Things Come in Small Packages added 17 November 2008
- There is Light at the End of the Tunnel added 23 October 2008
- Four Countries: One Language added 23 September 2008
- Board meets in Johannesburg added 22 August 2008
- A Fruitful First 40 days added 14 July 2008
- Gissur Gudmundsson 2nd Message added 11 June 2008
- Gissur Gudmundsson 1st Message added 23 May 2008
