An herb risotto comes with duck confit, scented with a white truffle essence.

Here, a sauce containing black truffle essence matches the deep flavor of the Blue-foots.

The current menu includes wild mushroom soup with truffle essence and roasted chestnut soup with cream and celery.

Mr. Ash said, "If you get too much truffle essence in the water, it is reminiscent of a wet dog."

Maybe that's the problem: too much truffle essence.

Dishes include sage gnocchi with a sauce made from truffle essence.

Wild mushroom ravioli basted with truffle essence held pockets of good mushroomy filling, but the edges resisted the side of a fork.

Thanks to a chemically produced truffle essence, truffle oil has become the secret, mildly deceitful weapon of chefs everywhere.

The mixture does contain truffle essence, although Post and Rathet point out that it is less than half what is permitted by the Italian government.

I would replace the canned artichokes with a more seasonal vegetable, and reduce the amount of buttermilk so the truffle essence is more pronounced.