Peru proposed as the seat of the World Congress of Gastronomy in 2016

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Approximately 650 chefs representing 83 different countries participated in the 34th Congress of the WACS (World Association of Chef Society), which for the first time took place in Chile in the end of January. It was organized by Achiga, the Chilean Gastronomical Association.

World Congress of Gastronomy in Chile

As the Peruvian representative, the Asociación Peruana de Chefs, Cocineros y Afines (APCCA) was present, managed by Agustín Buitrón Baca, chef and professor at the Universidad de San Martín de Porres.

The worldwide network of WACS was founded in October 1928 at the Sorbonne in Paris as a professional organization dedicated to the maintenance and betterment of the culinary norms of world cooking. Its first congress, which took place in 1930 in Paris (the last, in 2008, was in Dubai), brought together 65 delegates from 17 countries, and who represented 36 national and international associations which elected the venerable Augusto Escoffier as the first honorary president.

Currently, the master chef Gissur Gudmundsson presides over the association and brings together 11 million chefs from 92 countries. Due to the presence of the APCCA at this important meeting of cooking professionals, Peru was proposed as the seat of the world congress for 2016.

In addition, on World Chef Day (the 22nd of next October), in the city of Cusco is celebrated a day known as Chefs United against Hunger. On this day, chefs from the world round meet in order to propose their best recipes to feed people in need.

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