One of the recently announced contestants on the sixth season of Bravo’s “Top Chef” calls Rochester home. Laurine Wickett, 38, chef/owner of Left Coast Catering in San Francisco, is a Rochester native. She also received her two-year degree from the Culinary Institute of American in Hyde Park. Though she no longer calls upstate NY home, we can bet some of her dishes will have an upstate NY flair.

Season six debuts on Bravo at 9 p.m. Wednesday, August 26th.