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Tom Colicchio, the chef and restaurateur, has an uncanny knack for being at the center of culinary culture. His book “Think Like a Chef,†published, in 2000, at the dawn of the celebrity-chef era, inspired countless wannabe stove jockeys; his star turn on “Top Chef,†America’s first major culinary reality show and a catalyst of the food-TV boom, made him a household name. (The show is currently airing its seventeenth season.) Now, as the coronavirus pandemic has led to government-mandated restaurant closures across the United States, putting millions of Americans out of work, Colicchio is in the spotlight again, as one of the founding chefs of the Independent Restaurant Coalition, a lobbying group that sprang into existence at the end of March.
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