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Tom Colicchio | |
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 Colicchio at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival | |
| Born | August 15, 1962 |
| Culinary career | |
Current restaurant(s)
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Award(s) won
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Thomas Patrick "Tom" Colicchio (August 15, 1962 in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American celebrity chef. He co-founded the Gramercy Tavern in New York City, and formerly served as a co-owner and as the executive chef. Gramercy Tavern opened in 1994 and was voted Most Popular Restaurant in New York City by the Zagat Survey in 2003 and 2005. He sold his interest in 2006 and is no longer affiliated with the restaurant. He is also the founder of Craft and Colicchio & Sons restaurants.
Colicchio is the recipient of five James Beard Foundation Medals for cooking accomplishments. He has been the head judge on every season of the Bravo reality TV show Top Chef.
Colicchio has been a featured chef on Great Chefs Television.[1]
Colicchio is Italian-American on both parents' sides. He has been married to filmmaker Lori Silverbush since 2001.[2] He has two sons, Dante (1993) from a previous relationship and Luka Bodhi (2009).[3]
Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Colicchio was part of a volunteer army serving food to rescue workers at Ground Zero.[2]The American Prospect associate editor Ezra Klein reported that on January 19, 2009, Colicchio effectively performed the Heimlich maneuver on award-winning cookbook author Joan Nathan, who was choking on a piece of chicken.[4] Both were at a U.S. presidential inaugural event in Washington D.C.
Colicchio served as the consulting producer on Bravo's Top Chef spin-off series entitled Top Chef Masters.[5]
Colicchio was the winner of the 2010 Outstanding Chef award from the James Beard Foundation.[6] He also won an Emmy award in 2010 for Outstanding Reality-Competition Programming as an executive producer of Top Chef, on which he also appears.
Restaurants
Craft
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Dallas
- Atlanta
Craftbar
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Atlanta
- New York City
'wichcraft
- New York City
- Las Vegas
- San Francisco
Craftsteak
- Ledyard, Connecticut
- Las Vegas
Voysey's (consultant)
Riverpark
- New York[7]
Books
- Think Like a Chef
- Craft of Cooking: Notes and Recipes from a Restaurant Kitchen
- 'wichcraft: Craft a sandwich into a meal—and a meal into a sandwich
- Top Chef The Cookbook
Eat Drink or Die
On August 20, 2008, Colicchio partnered with Or Die Networks' eatdrinkordie.com, a site dedicated to hosting entertaining, instructional food videos made by experts and users alike.[8]
Notes
- ^ Great Chefs Television
- ^ a b Allen, Jenny (September 30, 2001). "WEDDINGS: VOWS; Lori Silverbush, Tom Colicchio". The New York Times.
- ^ People - "Celebrity Babies" (8 December 2009)
- ^ Ezra Klein (2009-01-19). "Tom Colicchio: Hero". The American Prospect. Retrieved 2009-01-20.
- ^ http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/2009/04/bravo_apres_project_runway_thi.html
- ^ http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv-news.en.ap.org/tv-news.en.ap.org-20100504-us_beard_awards_restaurants
- ^ Zagat Buzz Blog: Tom Colicchio and David Burke Ready Their Next Spots, June 2, 2010
- ^ "New 'Or Die' Site: Eatdrinkordie.com"
References
- Interview with Tom Colicchio at ICE - April 2004
External links
- Chefs Biography
- Tom Colicchio's Eatdrinkordie.com Profile
- Gramercy Tavern official web site
- 'wichcraft official web site
- Craft Restaurant official web site
- Top Chef bio and blog
- US Beard Awards