The Truffle BookGareth Renowden explores the truffle forests of France and the truffle markets of Italy, discovers the new truffles of the American Northwest and the new plantations of Australia and New Zealand, and dispels a few myths along the way. There's advice on setting up a truffière, training a dog to find truffles, how to buy truffles and avoid expensive mistakes, and how to cook the defining truffle dishes. |
Contents
Foreword | 6 |
Introduction | 7 |
The Truffle | 10 |
The Empire of the Senses | 15 |
The Realm of the Roots | 25 |
France | 34 |
Italy | 43 |
Spain | 50 |
Dogs and Pigs but mainly Dogs | 82 |
The Truffle Business | 91 |
Desert Truffles | 95 |
Buying Truffles | 99 |
The Defining Dishes | 103 |
Fungal Feasting | 110 |
The Truffle Tour | 114 |
Grow Your Own | 119 |
Common terms and phrases
Acqualagna Alba Antonio Carluccio aroma and flavour Australia autumn baits bianchetto brulée Burgundy truffle CHAPTER Charles Lefevre chef chicken Chinese truffle Christina Wedén cooked cuisine desert truffles dish eggs Europe experience find truffles flesh foie gras forests France French fresh truffle fruiting fungi gourmet ground grow harvested hazels hemisphere infected Italian white truffle Italy kilo Limestone Hills looking mushrooms mycorrhizae North nose oaks Oregon Oregon truffles Oregon white truffles Pébeyre Périgord black truffle Piedmont pigs plantations plenty porcini produce Provence real thing recipes region restaurants risotto roots season seedling shaved skin slices smell soil southern spores summer truffle tartufo Tasmania taste there’s tonnes truf truffière truffle business truffle dogs truffle grower truffle hunter truffle market truffle oil truffle species truffles Tuber Tuber aestivum Tuber borchii Tuber indicum Tuber magnatum Tuber melanosporum Tuber uncinatum white truffle winter Zealand