Ascension students head to national cooking competition

GEISMAR - The Ascension Parish ProStart Team recently took first place at the Louisiana Seafood ProStart Invitational for their BRG Hospitality Culinary team. The team is now preparing to head to Maryland for the national competition.The students must make a three-course meal in sixty minutes. The team is judged on creativity and efficiency as well as taste, knife skills and menu cost. For Dutchtown High School senior Olivia Jarreau, Louisiana's first ProStart Student of the Year, this is more