Category: Food Wine Truffles

FOOD WINE ROME: Excerpts from the app. Your Daily Delight: E. Volpetti & Co.

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FOOD WINE ROME: Excerpts from the app. Your Daily Delight: E. Volpetti & Co.

Published by admin on September 22, 2014

FOOD WINE ROME: Excerpts from the app. Your Daily Delight: E. Volpetti & Co. on Via Marmorata in the Testaccio neighborhood Rome, the…

Truffles in Black and White: Part Four of Four: the Truffle-hunting Pig of Lalbenque

Published by admin on March 22, 2011

All photos copyright Alison Harris At Lalbenque, 10 kilometers southeast of Le Montat in southwest France, legendary truffle-hunter Marthe Delon awaited me with her spotted…

Truffles in Black and White: Part Three: the Truffle Heartland of Southwest France

Published by admin on March 15, 2011

All photos copyright Alison Harris “Even an expert has difficulty distinguishing brumale from melanosporum,” growled Pierre-Jean Pébeyre, France’s leading dealer of fresh and conserved melanosporum.…

Truffles in Black and White: Part Two, Truffle Hunting in Piedmont

Published by admin on March 8, 2011

The scent of truffles is what draws trained dogs and pigs to them. Wild or cultivated, truffles grow at random around host trees and must…