Wexford is the Pines Tavern. Jennerstown is the Green Gables. I could go on and on, but this is enough to stuff in one wallet. It won't be long till the dining moves outside at the Sewickley Caf . The new menu features truffles, truffles, truffles.
Black truffles are rare, white truffles are even more rare.
I have had entrees with bits of black, which the menu said were truffles, but could have been bits of black olives, for all the difference it seemed to make in the dish. But one of the best roast chickens I have ever had was in the truffle area of France. It was nothing but chicken, truffles and perhaps some butter, and it was wonderful. I was with a group of food writers who had spent the afternoon scoffing and laughing as we watched a dog named Blackie root frantically under some trees to bring up black truffles growing there. We thought it was all a setup.