So, we ourselves are as naïve as anyone else on this topic, having not-too-long-ago extolled the virtues of dishes containing the latest faux-food villain at B Restaurant in Oakland...
Guess what? Truffle oil does not contain truffles. At all. Not even a trace, not a soaking, nothing.
Thank you and local chef-owner Daniel Patterson of Coi who penned the article, for enlightening us. Now, we can no longer shiver with joy at menu descriptions offering said not-really-a-taste-of-truffle on our salads, apps, entrees — albeit for much less than we’d have to pay if the chef actually shaved the real thing on our plates.
Yes, we’ve had the real thing twice in our lives. And we feel extra lucky about that. Even though we couldn't exactly tell you how it tastes. It's... ephemeral?
And you know we can be rabid about our desire for non-gmo/chemical/hormone modified foods. But somehow, "2,4-dithiapentane" doesn’t actually scare us. It's just that we won’t be so excited when we see it on our menus anymore.
