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Board member, Graham Hawks with wife and friends as well as Siu-Bee Knipp, seen chatting... errr boozing away during the opening reception.

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Ladies at a (predominantly male) chef's congress are usually super critical and will check out what the men have been up to in their kitchens.

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Norbert Schmidiger being confronted by Tony Jackson, although the Scotsman probably had a hard time getting Herr Schmidiger to listen to the latest financial plans with a young lady present!

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Frank Naesheim from Singapore together with the president Otto Weibel from the Singapore Chefs Association and Reinhold Metz from Germany's VKD.

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Ferdinand Metz and his lovely wife, with Mrs Meyer in deep discussion on the drawbacks of being a chef's wife!

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And who said chefs weren't a hungry lot...?

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Billy Gallagher and Kurt Zimmerman with their respective better halves posing for the evening news.

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The Japanese delegation and Herr Hansen are also here to contribute to the international friendship of chefs.

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Singing happy songs while you can is a good idea as tomorrow will bring with it serious work (but probably also more serious fun!)

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Yep Mr Israel, with so much food, what else can we do but smile for the next toothpaste advertisement?

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Mr and Mrs Schaber, wearing smiles while having to scope with the stress that a WACS presidency is bringing along.

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But Herr Schaber, although we all know that your strength is in international relations, are you sure that Ms. Finland needs such close introduction to the world?

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Yeah Mr. Hawkes, we know that New Zealand men always have to report to their better halves before big decision making

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If ever a Swedish delegation had spent time checking out chicken legs, then this was also done in Dublin - with a vengeance