Chef Smith Ends Cook-a-thon Attempt
Ghanaian chef Ebenezer Smith, also known as Millennium Chef Smith, has brought to a successful close his attempt to write history for the longest cooking marathon after Irish Chef, Alan Fisher.
He turned on his stove for the culinary challenge at the Amadia Shopping Centre at Spintex in Accra on February 1, 2024, and turned off the stove on March 6, 2024, after cooking for 35 straight days.
He initially advertised a 360-hour cooking marathon but went on to add over 400 hours which runs into some 21 days.
In a Facebook post before noon on Wednesday as the country marked the 67th Anniversary celebration, he drew the curtain on the adventure.
“AND ALL HAS ENDED,” he captioned some emotional moments after ending the marathon.
Following Chef Failatu Abdul Razak’s failed attempt to break Alan Fisher’s 119 hours 57 minutes record set in November 2023, the anticipation over Chef Smith’s attempt is high.
Millennium Chef Smith, an international executive chef, had his initial applications, motivated by Hilda Bacci’s record, disapproved by the world record keeper, Guinness World Records (GWR).
The intention of Chef Smith goes beyond smashing the record. He intends to restore the record to Africa.
In June, Nigerian chef Hilda Baci extended the world’s longest cooking marathon record to 93 hours and 11 minutes from 87 hours and 45 minutes by India’s Lata Tondon. In November, Chef Fisher extended it to 119 hours 57 minutes.
