Guinness World Record attempts have risen sharply in the last year and a half – but controversy has followed
In 2008, two years after Ebenezer Smith graduated from high school with no means to go on to university, he ventured into Ghana’s culinary industry hoping to become a world-renowned chef.
For years, life moved at a slower pace than he had envisioned. So last October, he quit his job as an Accra beach resort chef earning about 1,800 cedis (£88) a month to pursue a new dream: dislodging 27-year-old Nigerian chief Hilda Baci as the world record-holder for the longest cooking marathon.
