Showing posts with label tattoos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tattoos. Show all posts

Saturday, December 3, 2011

From toques to tattoos, a kitchen culture change



Stephanie Izard looks like the girl next door, all T-shirt and curly pony tail. Until she wipes the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand. And then you see it.
The seafood skin image.
"Cooking is an art and shape art are another type of art," says the chef-owner of Chicago's heralded Young lady and the Goat cafe, displaying off the fragile sketching on the within of her hand. Throw up her jeans and a pea tendril problems up her leg, a small location becoming powerful. A shiny eco-friendly gecko rests on one hip. A dolphin you can find somewhere unshowable. And across her again, the element de level of resistance — a growing tulsi location encircled by cartoonish traveling pigs.
"People come into our cafe and say 'Do you only seek the services of range cooks with tattoos?'" says Izard, the first and only lady to win Bravo's "Top Preparing." "No, we just occur to have lot of them included in them."