Buenos Aires “Heart-Stopper”

Butterflied New York Strip with Bacon and Eggs

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    1

    and can be Multiplied
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

The French Paradox grabs all the headlines, but the one that really puzzles me might be called the Argentinean Paradox. How does this nation of relentless carnivores manage to stay so trim? Argentineans eat meat an average of ten to twelve times a week (that’s meat for dinner daily and for lunch as often as possible). Yet Argentineans generally look fit and slender, and the kind of obesity so rampant in the United States is virtually unknown there. If such is the Argentinean Paradox, here’s