Chefs with tattoos

Chef Ludo Lefebvre’s rooster tattoo.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Chef Ludo Lefebvre’s arm.   (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Chef Bruce Kalman of Urbano Pizza Bar in downtown Los Angeles.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Chef Bruce Kalman of Urbano Pizza Bar in downtown Los Angeles.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Chef Carolynn Spence shows off some of her food-related tattoos at Bar Marmont in Hollywood.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Chef Carolynn Spence sports a few anthropomorphic vegetables along her upper arm.  (Mel Melcon /Los Angeles Times)

Chef Carolynn Spence.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Chef Michael Voltaggio of Ink restaurant in Los Angeles.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Chef Michael Voltaggio of Ink restaurant in Los Angeles.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)