Please Remove the Mushrooms from My Baba Ganoush

Mama restaurant group has a line of retail products now. I bought their Mamnoon baba ganoush at the PCC, mistakenly thinking it was the old house-made baba that was so good. This was not so good. I understand using citric acid to extend shelf life of perishable foods, but does baba really need “an umami-forward profile” using shiitake mushroom extract? And there’s no lemon in there either.

Mamnoon’s restaurants are well-regarded. Hard to go wrong with Mediterranean food. They just did a fundraiser for Gaza with Palestinian chef Nadia Tommalieh. Guessing their hummus is good.

—Alex