Indian Federation of Culinary Associations (IFCA) is a non-profit, apolitical organisation of culinary professionals and India's sole representative in the World Association of Chefs Societies.
It is the nodal agency of India's regional culinary associations - the Indian Culinary Forum (ICF), the South India Culinary Association (SICA) and the Western India Culinary Association (WICA).
IFCA aims at bringing together the elite among culinary professionals in order to:
- Create and maintain bonds of friendship and foster professional co-operation and mutual understanding
- Promote cooking, cuisines, recipes and quality products and technical know-how
- Enable improvement in the professional standards within the industry through effective training and recruitment
- Lay emphasis on communication and exchange of ideas and its role in development of the industry
- Promote professional exchanges of personnel, scholarships, international culinary competitions and bursaries
- Liaise with various related professional bodies and institutes in enabling training course apprenticeship schemes and related vocational links
- Promote, foster and encourage the culinary art and related studies
- To increase membership through education and professional advancement
Realising the Vision
To make the objectives of IFCA possible it is necessary to:
- ? have open lines of communication for free exchange of ideas
- ? to provide opportunities of education for professional development as well as individual progress
- ? to give all members the support and guidance they require and direct them towards opportunities
- ? to promote safety and hygiene standards with regards to all food and water supply
- ? to promote integrity and innovation
