Chefs and Restaurants

The Markings of a True Chef

Sous Chef Valeria Benner of Lockwood in the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago wears her culinary heart on her sleeve, literally, in the form of knives, whisks, carrots, bees and a pin-up girl in a toque tattoos. As for the shish kebab and skull? Benner says it reminds her of a chef's fate: "It skewers your entire life, once you get into food and culinary. You’re a lifer....