The head chef worked in several Michelin 3-star kitchens in Europe before returning home to cook the finest steaks, along with ultra-fresh seafood that Fervor prides itself upon, in the classic Argentinean style over a smoldering fire of ashes.

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In the cottage downstairs there was only one room, with a kitchen at one end and a sitting room at the other, a flagged floor and a wood fire smoldering in a wide stone hearth, one wall stripped back to the naked stone.

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On Sept. 27, 1972, just a year after joining France's oldest ad agency, Levy dashed into the firm's still-smoldering offices after a fire and rescued documents and magnetic tapes that would keep Publicis in business while its splashy Champs-Elyses headquarters was rebuilt.

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Afterward, even as water used to fight the fire froze on the ruins, smoldering wreckage buried inside rekindled the flames.

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