@Scott - agree with nearly everything you wrote but I do personally consider every show a special experience. They're just not created equal is all.

There are people who are obsessed with truffles who spend all their free time searching for, preparing, tasting, comparing, and discussing truffles. While I like truffles, there's no way I am remotely as passionate about truffles as these people are, because I don't choose to spend every waking free moment pondering truffles. And those people understand that all truffles are not created equal, which is what makes some truffles truly transcendent. In a way, it's the common, below average truffle that allows you to define the mindblowing, once-in-a-lifetime truffle -- because if you do not acknowledge the former, you can't describe the latter. And a truffle that blows my mind when shaved over a dish of risotto might draw scorn from a truffle connoisseur. That doesn't make him any less passionate about truffles, and if I'm doing it right, it shouldn't deaden my own experience.

Wow, that's a tortured metaphor if I ever read one.

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