Live Fire. Real Flavor.

Recipes, technique, and the art of cooking over fire.

Not your backyard BBQ blog.

The Smoke & Salt is a live-fire recipe journal from a 20-year food stylist and culinary producer. Technique-forward, California-inflected, and built around the conviction that great grilling is about craft, not equipment.

Free Download: 14 Compound Butter Recipes

Finishing butters that transform anything off the grill. Herb, spice, citrus, and smoke – all 14 recipes in 0ne free PDF.

About Jeff Parker

Twenty years styling food for magazines, cookbooks, and television. Now I’m cooking for myself — and sharing everything I know about live fire, technique, and the ingredients that make it all worth eating.