black truffle

Truffles 101: The Elusive Fungus

Few ingredients are more expensive and alluring than the truffle! Consumed as a delicacy throughout history, truffles have been revered for their flavor, rarity and aphrodisiac properties. Growing hidden among the roots of oak, hazelnut and beech trees, many of the world’s truffles are found in Italy, France and elsewhere in Europe. French gourmand Jean
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