Alice Waters Helps Save Choking Cookbook Author

Soft spoken Chez Panisse and SFM founder Alice Waters is a genius. Really, who minces garlic with the tines of a fork so as not to bruise the oil? Alice does, that's who. Now Waters can add semi-hero to her resume. At a party for the Art.Food.Hope inaugural event for DC Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table, Waters, according to Eater, "bursts into the room, asking if anyone knows the Heimlich maneuver, as cookbook author Joan Nathan [was] choking." Top Chef's Tom Colicchio, however, came to the rescue, performing the gut-punching act on Nathan. What a guy. That said, chefs and restaurant owners really should be trained in the Heimlich maneuvering arts, yes? Yes.