Guinness World Recorder Breaker, Hilda Baci To Attend Gastronomy Festival

The current world record holder for the ‘Longest Cooking Marathon by an individual’ Hilda Baci will be participating in the food festival on Saturday, the 17th of June 2023, at Abuja.

This year’s Gastronomy Festival with the theme “Culinary Arts: The Gateway to Growing Tourism Destinations” is the third consecutive food and beverage exhibition and sampling event, initiated and annually organized by NIHOTOUR, since 2021.

Speaking on the invitation of Hilda Baci to the Gastronomy Festival in Abuja, the Director General of NIHOTOUR, Nura Kangiwa, said “by law, NIHOTOUR, as Nigeria’s lead hospitality and tourism occupational skills development Institute is required to mitigate the skills-gap challenges of personnel in the industry and to equally drum-up support for practitioners that are, despite the odds, achieving measurable success the tradecraft and Hilda Baci is one of such rare cases of gastronomic success Nigeria has attained.”

The DG said “The new world record of cooking achieved by Hilda, as adjudged by the committee of the Guinness World Records, for us, in NIHOTOUR, we recognize that her success has become a beacon that is now encouraging more Nigerian youths to take up careers in the hospitality and catering sub-sectors. You see, as an occupational skills development Institute, our primary mandate is to enable people to acquire requisite skills to become self-employed, by adding value to the hospitality and tourism industry, and Hilda Baci exemplifies that! So, like most Nigerians, NIHOTOUR is impressed with her commitment to excel.”

The Gastronomy Festival is one of the largest of its kind in Africa – with public exhibition and free tasting of hundreds of culinary masterpieces from Nigeria’s 300 ethnic groups and the international communality including cuisines from China, Spain, Senegal, Trinidad & Tobago, and Cote D’Ivoire.
The Festival is organized by National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR), a parastatal of the Federal Government established by an Act of Parliament to train, certify and register personnel in Nigeria’s hospitality, travel, and tourism sector.

Olusola Akintonde