{"id":32812,"date":"2024-07-06T17:46:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award"},"modified":"2024-07-06T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:39:50","slug":"ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span><b>A Ghanaian chef who claimed he broke the world record for longest non-stop cooking was arrested on Tuesday, July 2 following a dispute with his sponsor.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ebenezer Smith had held a press conference saying he set a new record by cooking for 802 hours and 25 minutes, over a month straight. He showed a certificate he said was from Guinness World Records (GWR) confirming his achievement.<\/p>\n<p>However, GWR denied this, stating the certificate was not theirs and that they were unaware of his attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The chef was arrested over a disagreement with his sponsor, the Amadia Shopping Centre in Accra, where he held the cooking marathon. He&#8217;s accused of violating a contract by not informing them about the alleged award.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaians on social media expressed surprise and disappointment over the situation, which gained attention when Smith initially claimed the record.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media reports; Chef Smith was released shortly after the arrest; but it was not clear what the charges were.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, local celebrities supported his unsuccessful record attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Alan Fisher holds the current record for longest cooking marathon by an individual at 119 hours, 57 minutes, and 16 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Eritrea Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. A Ghanaian chef who claimed he broke the world record for longest non-stop cooking was arrested on Tuesday, July 2 following a dispute with his sponsor. Ebenezer Smith had held a press conference saying he set a new record by cooking for 802 hours and 25 minutes, over a month straight. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[1000,4911,233,4912,4910],"class_list":["post-32812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africanews","tag-chef","tag-eritrea","tag-fake-information","tag-guinness-world-records"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award - Eritrea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Ghanaian chef who claimed he broke the world record for longest non-stop cooking was arrested on Tuesday, July 2 fo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Ghanaian chef who claimed he broke the world record for longest non-stop cooking was arrested on Tuesday, July 2 fo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eritrea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-06T17:46:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-06T18:39:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-06T17:46:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-06T18:39:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africanews\",\"Chef\",\"Eritrea\",\"fake information\",\"Guinness World Records\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award\",\"name\":\"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award - Eritrea\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-06T17:46:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-06T18:39:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"A Ghanaian chef who claimed he broke the world record for longest non-stop cooking was arrested on Tuesday, July 2 fo ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":538,\"caption\":\"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/\",\"name\":\"Eritrea\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award - Eritrea","description":"A Ghanaian chef who claimed he broke the world record for longest non-stop cooking was arrested on Tuesday, July 2 fo ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award","og_description":"A Ghanaian chef who claimed he broke the world record for longest non-stop cooking was arrested on Tuesday, July 2 fo ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award","og_site_name":"Eritrea","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2024-07-06T17:46:46+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-07-06T18:39:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":538,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award","datePublished":"2024-07-06T17:46:46+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-06T18:39:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award"},"wordCount":207,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg","keywords":["Africanews","Chef","Eritrea","fake information","Guinness World Records"],"articleSection":["all news","miscellaneous"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award","name":"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award - Eritrea","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg","datePublished":"2024-07-06T17:46:46+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-06T18:39:50+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"A Ghanaian chef who claimed he broke the world record for longest non-stop cooking was arrested on Tuesday, July 2 fo ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/27\/2024\/07\/sm_1720274763.169866.jpg","width":1024,"height":538,"caption":"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/ghanaian-chef-fakes-guinness-world-records-award#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ghanaian Chef fakes Guinness World Records Award"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/","name":"Eritrea","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}