Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield, IL, USA - It was the freakish art on the cover of Anthony Bourdain’s “Les Halles Cookbook” that inspired Michael Higgins to get his first and only tattoo.

He and another chef at Maldaner’s saw the toque-wearing skull that was wielding crossed chef’s knives on the hardcover edition “and we said, ‘That would be a great tattoo,’” said Higgins, who owns the restaurant at 222 S. Sixth St.

Using that art as a jumping-off point, he and tattoo artist Kevin Veara of Black Moon Tattoos, 1009 W. Edwards St., embellished the Bourdain design with flames, a crossed spoon and fork and the words “Born to