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Only held once every four years and for the first time in Stuttgart: The IKA/Culinary Olympics ensures an international and Olympic trade fair experience. From October on, visitors can book menu tickets. 

How are teams taking home the gold medal at the IKA/Culinary Olympics? We explain the way how chefs will become Olympic Champions in 2020.

The German Chefs Association, Verband der Köche Deutschlands (VKD), has managed to procure important partners for the IKA/Culinary Olympics (14th to 19th February 2020) which will take place in conjunction with the INTERGASTRA 2020, the leading trade fair for the hotel and catering industry. The common motivation to participate...

Hundreds of young chefs from all over the world are inspired to take part in the IKA/Culinary Olympics and the INTERGASTRA, the leading trade fair for the hotel and catering industry in Stuttgart. In this context, we talked to the junior national culinary teams in several countries.

Teams participating at the IKA/Culinary Olympics 2020 in Stuttgart enjoy an exclusive discount at the rental car company Sixt.

Why should you become active yourself? Which print media is the right for you? Which messages are relevant to your press release? To answer all these questions and more, we created a guideline for successful press work for all teams participating at the IKA/Culinary Olympics 2020 in Stuttgart. It...

The IKA/Culinary Olympics is the oldest and largest culinary art exhibition in the world. The participants have been venturing out extraordinary menu creations for over 100 years, which often did not exist before. A look at the dishes of the winning teams from 2016, Singapore and Sweden, reveals what...

The conditions of participation for the National Teams and Junior National Teams for the IKA/Culinary Olympics 2020 have been adjusted. All policies downloaded before April 16th are no longer valid. You can now download the current guidelines here.

Thanks to strong partners at its side, the VKD as host can master this unique competition.

With the help of prominent support, the German Chefs Association (VKD) has drawn competition days of the IKA/Culinary Olympics, which will take place in parallel with Intergastra in Stuttgart in 2020. By Sonja Kuhl The magnificent marble hall of the New Palace in Stuttgart was bathed in IKA orange...