Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio Saves Life

Tom Colicchio is already one of America’s most celebrated chefs. And now the Top Chef head chef has joined the ranks of heroes. At the Washington D.C. fundraiser Art. Food. Hope., Colicchio was trying to mollify a group of fans angry about the elimination of contestant Arlane when another famed chef, Alice Waters, appeared on the staircase and anxiously yelled, “Does anyone know the Heimlich maneuver?” Coliccho answered the call and saved the life Joan Nathan, the James Beard award-winning cookbook author, who was had a piece of chicken lodged in her throat. I was nearby,” Colicchio told Ezra Klein, whose firsthand account for the Internet Food Association is a breathless gem of a read. Said Nathan, who ironically hosted the event that drew Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and Rachel Maddow: “He’s so strong.”

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