Barbara Rose Amewusika Baeta was born on Friday 28th May 1937 and grew up in a happy, loving and supportive home as the eldest child to the late Reverend Professor Christian Baeta who was a Minister of the Presbyterian Church and Victoria Baeta.  Barbara spent her early days in Keta and Ho and attended Keta and Ho Presbyterian School. In 1950, her aunt—Justice Annie Baeta Jiagge—was coming to Accra and brought Barbara along to keep her company. She found a primary school for her near the courts and from there Barbara sat the Common Entrance Examinations and entered Achimota School.  Before her O Level’s Barbara Baeta left for the United Kingdom, completing her A Levels, and ended up at the Glasgow College of Domestic Science in Scotland where she trained and studied Hotel, Institutional and Catering Management in Glasgow.

Barbara Baeta established Flair Catering Services in 1968. Not only does Flair offer its services for State Banquets and top Diplomatic events, but Ms. Baeta has extended her arm to young and enthusiastic individuals willing to tread her path by offering training services as well.

Since her first contract for $100 which was to feed one hundred servicemen aboard a US Navy Vessel, on American Independence Day in 1968, she has fed dignitaries such as His Royal Highness King Charles to Ex-President Barack Obama. The list gets more impressive with every mention: The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Waddaulah, Ethiopia’s late Emperor Haile Selassie, Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, The late Imperial Majesty of Japan, Prince Takamo and Princess Takamo, former UN Secretary-Generals, U Thant and Javier Perez de Cuellar, Malaysian Prime Minister, His Excellency Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, and the former US Vice-Presidents Spiro Agnes and Hubert Humphrey.

She’s written or co-authored books including the bestselling “The Ghana Cookbook”, a collaboration with Dr. Fran Osseo-Asare which in 2016 won the prestigious Gourmand Cookbook Award. Prior to that, she wrote “The West African Cookery Cards” and contributed to The Lifetime Magazine Cookbook and The Kitchen Safari.  Her memoir titled ‘Flair’ tells the whole story of her journey.

Reference: Interview