Grilled Salmon with Cucumbers and Black Bean Sauce

Of the hundreds of ways to serve grilled salmon, the following offers one of my favorite taste combinations. For a wonderful variation, put basil leaves, salt, pepper, and olive oil under rashers of bacon laid across a fillet, and then place under the broiler. The salmon comes out moist and perfumed with basil and the smoke from the bacon. A mint hollandaise on poached salmon is also very good, and Chinese black bean sauce made quite mild is haunting in taste and beautiful in color against