Tom Colicchio & Joan Nathan: Colicchio saved Nathan’s life

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Joan Nathan is known for her cook books and PBS show Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan. She needed help getting this dish down. Or up. Tom Colicchio, of Top Chef fame, saved the day when she started choking at a benefit for D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table.

Nathan had a piece of chicken lodged in her windpipe. Tom Colicchio came to the rescue, and performed the Heimlich maneuver on her and removed the piece of chicken. He said he was glad he was able to help. Colicchio stressed he was only doing what anyone else would have done.

“I just happened to be nearby,” Colicchio said.

Nathan was more expressive: “He’s so strong!” she said.

Thank G-d she’s OK. Can you imagine?

Facts about Joan Nathan:

Ms. Nathan writes for The New York Times and other publications and is the author of numerous books, including Jewish Cooking in America, which won both the James Beard Award and the IACP / Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award in 1994.

Nathan was also the executive producer and host of Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan, a PBS series based on her cookbook, Jewish Cooking in America.

The author of award-winning cookbooks and the host of the acclaimed PBS series Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan, Nathan is an internationally recognized expert on food culture and a recent inductee into Who’s Who in Wine and Food by the James Beard Foundation.

When Charlotte was preparing to cook her first Shabbat dinner on Sex and the City, Joan Nathan’s Jewish Cooking in America made an appearance.