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I like this quote, from the New York Times, an article about chef tattoos *which i will be getting sometime within the next year* the hilighted parts are my favourite.
"Every profession has its rituals and idioms, but there is something especially tribal about cooking. Chefs spend years developing their craft, working nights and holidays in the celebrated pressure of a restaurant just so that a stranger may enjoy a passing moment of pleasure. The devotion is beautiful -- and a little lunatic.
Naturally, cooking ranks with the Navy and the yakuza as one of the great tattooed vocations, though the images sometimes differ. The most committed chefs are known to ink tools and ingredients onto their bodies -- a sign that they're in it for more than just the endless desserts. Not that chefs aren't already marked by their trade. Look at their hands, and you'll see cuts, calluses, scars; look at their arms, and you'll see burn marks from reaching into an oven in a busy kitchen. "