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 chef Hilda Baci as the world record-holder for the longest cooking marathon.
