FROM THE SOUND of his name, you might imagine Ford Fry was destined to spend his life in a kitchen. In fact, the 49-year-old Texas-born chef currently has 15 restaurants under his belt, including popular outposts like the Optimist, JCT. Kitchen, and King + Duke in Atlanta, La Lucha and State of Grace in Houston, and Superica in Charlotte, North Carolina. Fry says he once opened five restaurants in a single year and reports that he currently has “another six or seven in the works.” Clearly, he loves food and he loves cooking.
But this is a magazine for musicians, not cooking. So, as you’d expect, Fry has another passion, namely guitars. He not only plays them (very well, in fact), he also collects them. His current crop of instruments,…
