Louisiana culinary students gathered in New Orleans recently for the annual Louisiana ProStart student competition, a kitchen showdown that challenges student chefs to cook a three-course gourmet meal in an hour. The winning team, from Hammond Magnet High School, started with shrimp three ways (garlic, almond-crusted, and bacon-wrapped), followed by beef tenderloin filet with a mashed potato patty and kale Rockefeller. The icing on the cake, er sort of, was a puff filled with Chantilly cream and chocolate-covered strawberries.
The Dutchtown High School team from Geismar, La., hard at work during the Louisiana ProStart competition in New Orleans. (Photo by MELANIE HEBERT, WWLTV.com)
The winners of the culinary competition – Alex Boudreaux, Lauren Fendalsen, Loretta Kellum and Jacob Lutz, all of Hammond High (see photo, below) – will join the winners of the management competition – Kelsey Burleigh, Sebastian Hebert, Catherine Meche and Andre Rochon, from Rayne High School – at the national ProStart invitational finals in Baltimore in April.
The culinary team from Hammond Magnet High School captured first place recently at the Louisiana ProStart competition. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)
