Ink Spotted - Hamilton Johnson

by Eater Staff Feb 29, 2012, 7:00am EST

"Peach anything; I’m all about it. I used to love hand-churned peach ice cream when I was growing up."
"Beets are one of my favorite vegetables. They’re so versatile – roasted, gelée, ice cream, sorbet – you can do anything you want with them."
"Key Lime pie is a big deal in the South. I used to make 20 of them a week for five years when I was living in Charleston, so I got pretty decent at it."
"There’s a bar across the street from Vidalia called the Black Rooster Pub that’s my home away from home. They ended up shutting it down, so I got this tattoo and it opened back up."
"I grew up in a small, very sheltered Southern town and my mom used to refer to all Chinese food as chop suey."
"Chik-fil-A waffle fries are like crack for me."
"It’s almost protocol to have a tattoo if you work in a kitchen now."
"I wanted to get something from my past that reminded me of being a kid."
"If you work at Vidalia for a year, you earn the right to get an onion tattoo. I was the second one to get it and now about 10 people have them."

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