Every year the Festival invites culinary professionals from all over the world to cook and to demonstrate their cuisines.
The festival was the idea of Thierry Blouet of Cafe des Artistes, Heinz Reize of Hotel Krystal and Sivan Muller of Nestle [citation needed] .
Six five-star hotels, six restaurants and twelve invited chefs participated in that festival [citation needed] .
In 2003, the honored guest of the festival was Anton Mosimann, who received an appointment by Queen Elizabeth II as an "Officer of the Order of the British Empire" and is a twice winner of the gold medal at the world level and the proprietor of Club Mossimann in both London and Switzerland.
Gerard Dupont, a president of Academie Culinaire de France, comes every year to teach classes and share his secrets with both colleagues and the public.