PositiveThe San Francisco Chronicle... reads less like one contiguous narrative and more like a series of related magazine articles — which, considering that Jacobs is an editor at Pacific Standard, makes a certain kind of sense. His book is a rigorously reported, carefully written, endlessly interesting immersion in a high-stakes subculture. It’s just not the yarn it promises to be ... While this halting rhythm can be frustrating, the book is so packed with fascinating facts that it almost doesn’t matter ... Jacobs conjures vivid, even ecstatic prose about how truffles intoxicate the senses ... he truffle is so ethereal that, even when it’s right under your nose, it remains somehow tantalizingly out of reach. And in that way, it is much like the book itself.
