A little more about Truffle Shuffle:
Founded as the honest truffle company. While working together at The French Laundry in Napa, Jason McKinney, Tyler Vorce, and Sarah Rundle fell in love with truffles and the overall, unforgettable experience they could provide.
The trio launched Truffle Shuffle at the end of 2018. The company began with the sole mission of bringing clarity and integrity to the complex world that is truffles for friends, chefs, and consumers alike.
Truffle Shuffle has come a long way since then, working with truffle-hunting families all over the world to source honest, traceable, fresh truffles for passionate, Michelin-rated restaurants and home chefs across the country.
The following year, Truffle Shuffle serendipitously launched a shelf-stable product line that began with the Balinese Truffle Salt, then giving the opportunity to release the Brown Butter Truffle Honey. Both products were picked up by Whole Foods for a global deal, and are now also available in a few other retailers and on Amazon.
When Covid-19 hit, and restaurants began to close, the small team, now 6–with the addition of French Laundry legend Leah WIlliams, and skilled chef and plant-whisperer Ian Rosenstrauch–knew they had to adjust their business model to survive.
The first live virtual cook-along-experience was launched in March, shipping ingredient kits with items measured out for Truffle Risotto (including fresh Spanish black truffles and a wooden truffle shaver). In a matter of 3 hours, Truffle Shuffle was sold out of everything, even the 20 pounds of fresh truffles they had on hand.
Truffle Shuffle has continued to offer online cooking classes since with such unbelievable support from the community of fellow chefs and patrons. Ingredient kits are shipped overnight a couple days before class, culminating with a group zoom class filled with step by step instruction led by Tyler and Jason, along with some humor and tales of the kitchen, and a sense of pride, accomplishment, and a delicious dinner when the class is over.
In addition to public Sunday classes, Truffle Shuffle–now made up of 22 incredible, hard-working, hospitality professionals, 16 of those laid off due to COVID-19–also offers private classes for smaller groups and companies. On top of everything, they are committed to donating a meal to first-responders, front line healthcare workers, and the local community in need, for every class kit sold.
