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Tom Colicchio is a restaurateur and author who stars in the award-winning reality TV show Top Chef.
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The couple considered canceling, especially after Colicchio received news that several former Gramercy Tavern employees were missing from the Windows on the World restaurant. "We felt we didn't have the right to experience joy," Colicchio said. "But people called and said, 'You've got to carry on.'" The wedding went ahead as scheduled, though the couple canceled their honeymoon so that Colicchio could volunteer as a cook for rescue workers downtown.
Further Success
Throughout the 2000s, Colicchio expanded the Craft family of restaurants across the United States. His restaurants came to include Craftsteak, an upscale steakhouse; Craftbar, a more-casual food and drink establishment; and 'wichcraft, a sandwich shop. He also became well known outside his dedicated foodie fanbase as the host of Top Chef, a popular Bravo reality show that pits chefs against one another in a cooking competition.
Colicchio also grabbed headlines in 2009 for a different kind of achievement in the kitchen: he saved the life of cookbook author Joan Nathan. By performing the Heimlich maneuver on Nathan, Colicchio saved the writer from choking on a piece of chicken at a food event.
In 2010, Colicchio was named the nation's top chef by the James Beard Foundation, one of the most prestigious prizes in the culinary world. Despite his massive food empire, Colicchio still values simplicity. His favorite seasonings are salt and pepper, and his favorite kitchen tool remains the basic 10-inch chef knife. And his number one rule for a successful kitchen? "Clean up after yourself!"
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