THE TRUFFLES

The first to find out, in 1810, was a French farmer, Joseph Talon, which obtained truffles from an oak planted with acorns from a natural truffle. Today species notes are substantially nine. Most notes are white (tuber magnatum pico) and the prized black (tuber melanosporum vitt or rnigrum tuber), followed by black winter, moscato, or by scorzone summer truffle from ordinary black, and black smooth or by bianchetto Marzuolo.

The white truffle: where and when born
The truffle, and the white in particular, has a sentinel ecological function in environmentally degraded areas tend to disappear. San Giovanni d'Asso whose territory lies between the Crete Senesi and Val d'Orcia is an example of a search for "sustainable development". There arises the most prized truffle, where organic farming is increasingly taking place.

Use, consumption and conservation
Truffles will enjoy much better fresh in their season: if you want to try preparations "truffle" as cheese, some cream, pastries, etc.. Or you want some truffle kept for special evenings, then you prefer also take place, leaving perhaps advise associations local truffle. Dishes meat, fish even a few desserts (pear mousse with chocolate, just spray) is accompanied in the third millennium to Tartufo Bianco.

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