Truffles

Chocolate Truffle or Truffle Underground
When Is a Truffle NOT a Truffle?
Ask a chef at a white tablecloth restaurant to describe a truffle, and he or she will probably wax poetic about the very expensive fungi that grow beneath oak trees. Ask a pastry chef to describe a truffle, and you will hear of a soft-centered confection coated in tempered chocolate. How did the fungus and the candy end up with the same name? Which came first, the savory truffle or the sweet one? This lens will take a look at truffles. And truffles. A little truffle history, and a recipe or...

Truffle ~ Truffles Mushroom
Truffle: The Diamond of the Kitchen
The true truffles are a group of several valuable and highly sought-after edible species of underground ascomycetes belonging to the fungal genus Tuber. The fruiting body of truffles is highly prized as food. It has a smell similar to deep-fried sunflower seeds or walnuts, though not all people are able to catch the odor of this fungus. The water after soaking truffles can taste a bit like soy sauce. Brillat-Savarin called the truffle "the diamond of the kitchen" and praised its aphrodisiacal...

Earth's Black Diamond
What is a truffle
Truffles are not exactly the most democratic product in the world. The truffle has always decorated the festive tables of the rich rather than the tables of the general population, for they are expensive-too expensive even for some. This is why, these last few years, various product were put on the market as alternatives to the known species of black and white truffles...Unfortunately, they are nothing more than an insult to the noble and unequaled fresh truffle. Let's not digress. Whoever do...