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Savory ingredient spotlight: The truffle!

Posted the 22/09/2008 05:32:08 By Savory Tv (Visit website)






Savory Tv will always be dedicated to recipes, although our goal is to help you learn about delicious ingredients as well. Savory ingredient spotlights will focus on the origins and history of gourmet foods found in nature, so that you can prepare meals including these ingredients with knowledge and complete confidence.


We are thrilled to honor the delicious truffle in our first ingredient spotlight post!


Known as “the diamond of the kitchen”, the truffle is a highly coveted and sought after gem. They are a subterranean fungi known as a tuber. Because they are difficult to cultivate and are found underground, they are often hunted for with specially trained dogs, and occasionally female pigs. The scent of the truffle has is know to have a compound that is similar to the male pig pheromone’s, hence the female pig attraction. Because the pigs tend to eat the truffles, the dogs are a more favored choice!


The highly prized nature of the truffle and labor intensive hunting has driven truffle prices into the sky. The most expensive truffle ever sold was a 2lb and 10oz Italian white alba truffle, which sold for 95,000 Euros in 2005.


In this video, Australian celebrity chef Benjamin Christie hunts for black truffles with dogs at a truffle farm outside of Camberra, and they find a few diamonds!


Learn more about Chef Benjamin and watch more of his videos here.



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