About Salt & Myth

Every dish has a secret history. Most of them are lies. This is where we find out which ones.

Meet Daniel Gourat — chef, restaurant owner, and accidental time traveler.

It started in the basement of his small restaurant, Salt & Myth, behind the water heater: an old recipe book with no author's name, holding the most iconic recipes of food, drink, cocktails, and desserts. Every time Daniel opens it to a recipe, his mind is pulled back through time and space to the moment that dish was discovered. He lives it — the kitchen, the people, the accident or the genius of it — then snaps back to the present and puts the dish on his menu, for a limited time.

Each week, one episode. Each episode, two things:

• The journey — the basement, the jump, the discovery as it really happened, the return.
• The record — the documented truth: the myths, the rival claims, the paperwork, the verdict.

The story is the adventure. The history is real.

About Daniel

Daniel Gourat is an executive chef and restaurant owner. He's spent his career in professional kitchens. Now he spends it chasing the true stories behind the food we all think we know.

No recipes without stories. No myths without checking the paperwork.