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It’s Work and a Pinch of Play for Restaurateur Salt Bae

Nusret Gokce works out in the gym at the Plaza Hotel in New York, Feb. 4, 2018. After an Instagram video of him sprinkling salt over a tomahawk steak in 2017 went viral, the internet christened him “Salt Bae,” a nickname the chef and restaurateur has embraced as he expands his steakhouse chain to Midtown Manhattan. (Devin Yalkin/The New York Times)