BATON ROUGE - The culinary students at East Baton Rouge Parish Schools' Career and Technical Education Center are heating things up in the kitchen.

Class instructor Chef Ashley Woods says they are learning how to mix flavors and get ready for a culinary career.

"It's a two-year program, they start on Prostart 1 where they learn the foundations, they learn times, they learn temperatures, they learn sanitation practices," Woods said.

Matthew Perkins-Mitchell is a senior at Liberty Magnet School, but you can call him the lead sous chef in Chef Wood's kitchen. He enrolled after someone told his mom about the culinary program.

"Your son likes to cook, and there's this program at CTEC. I didn't know what CTEC was, and she was like, 'There is this program at CTEC that has culinary arts,' and

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