Grilled Butternut Squash

Being the unabashed carnivores that they are, Argentineans don’t pay a lot of attention to vegetables. But the few they do grill—peppers, eggplants, onions—come off the fire as smoky and sweet as grilled vegetables anywhere on Planet Barbecue. To this short list, I have a new vegetable to add: whole butternut squash fire roasted in the skin. I first sighted the squash at Campobravo, a grill restaurant in the trendy Palermo district of Buenos Aires. The grilling process gives the squash “ste