Pizza Express: The Trifolata Pizza
Trifolata is the new pizza from Pizza Express. An unremarakbale piece of news until you get to the bit about white truffels. They are actually going to be serving pizza topped with white truffle. After caviar white truffle is the most expensive ingredient in the world, clocking in at thousands of pounds per kilo.
An £8.80 pizza of course is going to be bulked out with other mushrooms - porcini, portobello, shitake, oyster and closed cup.
“Here’s some handy pub trivia for you: the white truffle is the rarest of all truffles and the second most expensive food, pound for pound, after caviar. These days, you won’t be able to find one unless you take a specially trained truffle hound to the Piedmont forests in northern Italy and let it loose. The new Trifolata pizza – which features a drizzle of luxurious white truffle oil – is pretty exclusive. Featuring five kinds of mushrooms - porcini, portobello, shitake, oyster and closed cup - and smoked mozzarella, this pizza is must-try dish…”
And then you realise that they are not actually going to use white truffle shavings but an infused olive oil.
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I’m sure most people won’t even notice that its oil, not the actual truffle. I’m betting even the flavour in the oil is not entirely from white truffles…