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"Power, intrigue, and really good food. Not necessarily in that order.  Top Chef: Washington DC i   s set to debut Wednesday, June 16 at 9pm ET/PT on Bravo. In addition to the 17 sizzling new cheftestants, look for guest appearances by DC power-brokers like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, CIA Director Leon Panetta, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. (Clearly Buzz is making the NBC rounds since he was recently on 30 Rock.) Looks like judge Toby has been replaced by our favorite guest judge and owner of New York&amp;#039;s Le Bernadin: Eric Ripert.  As always the cut-throat competition will have these new chefs vying for the prize of $125,000, a feature in Food &amp;amp;amp; Wine magazine, a showcase at the Annual Food &amp;amp;amp; Wine Classic in Aspen, and the title of Top Chef. Contestants&amp;#039; challenges are definitely in the DC groove, as well: &amp;quot;the chefs take over the concession stands at the Nationals stadium, go inside the CIA&amp;#039;s closely guarded headquarters and literally receive out of this world direction on one challenge from a NASA astronaut orbiting Earth.&amp;quot; Hope they are not using tax dollars for that mission. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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