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"At Elena Restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel Buenos Aires, executive chef Juan Gaffuri insisted I taste the steak 'naked' before adding chimichurri, explaining that grillers take pains to avoid smoke—using grates with canoe-like cross bars to channel fat away from the coals—and that meat is best seasoned just before or as it hits the metal with coarse sal parrillera and finished after carving with a delicate shower of Patagonian sea salt." - Jane Sigal