When the seventh season of the Bravo series “Top Chef” premieres Wednesday, there will be six contestants out of 17 who are graduates of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park.

And one of them teaches there.

Whether they all make it through to the finale is anybody’s guess.

Competing on the series, which is set in Washington, D.C., this time around, are Lynne Gigliotti, of Highland, assistant professor at the CIA; Tracey Bloom of Atlanta; Kelly Liken of Vail, Colo.; Angelo Sosa of New York City; Andrea Curto-Randazzo of Miami; and Ed Cotton of New York City.

The show puts the chef-contestants through their paces with a Quickfire Challenge in which they must cook with specific ingredients or participate in a culinary-related challenge, followed by an Elimination Challenge.

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