“I love cooking, it has been a passion since I was little, I have always done it with my mom and dad” Said Rachael Piscitello, 10^th grade, who represented OHS at the Region 4 skills U.S.A. which is a competition held every year to give students a chance to show off their skills in cooking. The competition was held at PTEC earlier this month with other schools around the area. Piscitello saw this as a huge achievement.  “This was a big accomplishment for me I was the youngest competitor at the competition; everyone else was a senior.”  Rachael has competed in the local competition that’s held at the Derby Lanes for the past 2 years so to be a part of this big competition was a challenge, but she pulled through. “We all had the same recipe; it was a house salad, cream of tomato soup, rice pilaf, sautéed chicken with gravy sauce and carrots with your own butter sauce.” Cooking is a passion of hers and will possibly become her career one day. “Yes of course I want to be a chef; I love to cook.” Because Rachael took first place at the regionals she will advance to the state competition April 28^th– May 1^st in Pensacola, Florida. Chef Smith comments on Rachael’s success “Rachael is an amazing culinarian, she is a natural born talent and extremely creative; I couldn’t be happier”