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There is a video of Diego Armando Maradona, a year and a half before he died, at the Nusr-Et restaurant in Dubai. In it appears the chef and owner of the establishment,

Nusret Gökçe (known on the Internet as Salt Bae)

preparing some ribs before the "cosmic kite" while it contemplates him as if God had come down (that is, himself, according to the acolytes of the 'Maradonian' church), absolutely rapt. At the end, the cook grants him the honor of finishing the ritual with his house brand: the Argentine star takes a handful of salt, bends his elbow and, with his hand on his shoulder, spreads it on the plate.

Leaving aside the effect of red meat and salt in abundance on the damaged circulatory system of El Diego, the images prove the pull of

Turkish cuisine 'freak'

, which has become a trend, yet another that comes from the Eurasian country after

hair implants in alopecia men

and soap operas.

Another video: a guy comes out smiling at the camera with slanted eyes and cutting a cheese of his good three kilos with a scimitar. He then melts it with a blowtorch and pours the result over a bowl of apparently meaty substance. Then he comes out again - always smiling with his eyes half closed - with a kind of cutlass with which he chops vegetables and lamb to make a gargantuan kebab. It is

CZN Burak

, who has also made his place on the internet with his 'king size' food videos and his particular pose,

as if he suffered some kind of delay

.

But CZN Burak is no retard: like Salt Bae, his videos spread through social media have boosted his business from his first location in Istanbul to various branches in the Turkish megalopolis and the inevitable landing in the United Arab Emirates.

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And not only that: all the famous people want to eat at their restaurants. Above all, footballers, but also politicians. Just as the steakhouses of the Piel de Toro have snapshots of their illustrious visitors as proof of status, Burak proudly sports photographs alongside

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

, Turkish President,

Will Smith and Cristiano Ronaldo

. Salt Bae, meanwhile, has literally had

David Bekham, Karim Benzema or Neymar

eating out of his hand

.

He even served the Venezuelan leader,

Nicolás Maduro

, in his restaurant in Istanbul.

, who squeezed a 'tomahawk' and smoked some cigars at a stop on his return from a tour of China. The evening was especially controversial, because just at that time the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) had just published a report that indicated that some 3.7 million Venezuelans (on the 12th % of the country's population, approximately) was in a situation of hunger or malnutrition. US Republican Senator Marco Rubio criticized the cook for entertaining an "overweight dictator."

Despite this, Gökçe's fame has only risen and it already has a dozen restaurants around the world: Istanbul, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Mykonos, New York, Miami, Dallas ... Everything points to the fact that

the The next opening will be in Madrid, in the premises of the late Embassy

, driven by the devotion that the Madrid captain, Sergio Ramos, has for him.

And all this, thanks to a video from 2017 in which he appeared spreading salt with his particular technique on a filleted loin. It was shared 10 million times and became the raw material for Instagram memes and videos. Since then, he is known as

the "hottie of the salt"

and has become a brand in itself. In fact, the reviews of his restaurants emphasize that the food is not worth it if he is not doing the 'chou'.

It

so happens

that

both Gökçe and Burak are Kurds

, the main minority within Turkish territory and one of the most persecuted groups in a country that committed the first great genocide of the modern era against the Armenians. Both chefs also share their interest in showing their charitable side, feeding the sick, the elderly or people with disabilities, or sponsoring some kind of charitable activity. Both have also seen their establishments temporarily shut down due to the covid and, in some cases, due to problems complying with the regulations against the coronavirus.

They differ enormously, yes, in their appearance: while Gökçe cannot be seen without his sunglasses or T-

shirts

or

open shirts a few more buttons to reveal his 'breaststroke'

, Burak wears sweatshirts and other types of unsophisticated looks, more in keeping with his smiling gesture.

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