A 27-year-old foodpreneur and TV producer, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, has taken the world by storm in the longest individual cooking marathon
A 27-year-old foodpreneur and TV producer, Hilda Effiong Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, has taken the world by storm in the longest individual cooking marathon. Setting a 96-hour record for herself, Baci went further to achieve a 100-hour cooking feat to beat the current record of 87 hours, 45 minutes set by Lata Tondon from India in 2019. Baci embarked on a 4-day cooking marathon tagged the ‘Hilda Baci Cookathon’ which began at 4pm on May 11 and ended at 10 pm on May 15, 2023 at Amore Gardens, Lekki in Lagos. Cooking over 100 meals and feeding over a thousand people, Baci did well to showcase her culinary skills using various local and intercontinental recipes to put Nigeria on the global culinary map. Baci said: “In the beginning when I started the attempt, the first day was the hardest. I almost gave up a couple of times. As time went on, my family, friends, followers and in general the public that turned up for my attempt sort of became part of the dream and journey. Even w...