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Tomato Sauces See all Back. Generally, only two kinds of truffles are hunted and prized in the culinary world: white truffles and black truffles. These both grow in similar circumstances underground, around tree roots, in neutral or alkaline soil , but they are each different from one another. The truffle is a seasonal fungus with varying growth patterns depending on the variety of truffle and its native country.
In addition to being picky about where they grow, they cannot be seen on the surface of the soil with the naked eye. A trained animal is required to find truffles. Traditionally, for centuries, this animal was a pig; today, it is often a dog as pigs have a bad habit of eating the truffles they find until the animal's handler can stop it.
Black truffles Tuber melanosporum are slightly easier to find than their white counterparts, though still a challenge. They have a symbiotic relationship with oak trees found in Perigord, in the southwestern region of France, though they are sometimes also found in Spain , Italy Umbria especially , Croatia , and Slovenia.
Black truffles need to be protected from extreme summer heat or extreme winter cold. They can be damaged if frost gets too deep into the soil in which they grow.
Their harvest season is relatively short and they can only be found from September through December. The white truffle Tuber magnatum - the "trifola d'Alba Madonna" or "Truffle of the White Mother" - is less commonly available than the black truffle, and generally grows in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.
They are also grown in Le Marche in northeastern Italy and commercialized heavily there, including an annual truffle festival. Some regions in central Italy, including Molise, Abruzzo and parts of Tuscany also produce some white truffles.
Even some parts of nearby Croatia sometimes yield white truffles. White truffles are traditionally found in calcareous mineral-rich, lime soil around the roots of oak, beech, and hazel trees in temperate climates. These Italian truffles see most of their growth from December 1st to the end of January.
Truffles, simply put, are very hard to find and harvest. I picked it up and, like a simian seeing a foreign object for the first time, began examining it from every angle. On 2 November , a truffle hunter in Istria the north-west swath of Croatia named Giancarlo Zigante and his devoted dog, Diana, unearthed this 1. Soon after, it was recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest white truffle ever found at the time.
Today, visitors to Istria can indulge in all things truffles, particularly at Restaurant Zigante founded by Zigante in in the small town of Livade after his find led to foodie fame where I was shown the replica of the legendary record-breaking tuber magnatum , as white truffles are called in scientific terms.
Visitors can also accompany Istrian truffle hunters and their dogs on a hunt and then indulge in a lavish truffle-sprinkled meal afterward — which is what I did on a recent visit to Istria. Prodan scurried over and pulled out a white truffle the size of a golf ball.
Mel was rewarded with a treat and the hunt went on. Prodan told me the reason for porcine superiority is that the truffle contains the steroidal pheromone androstenone, which also happens to be produced in the saliva of male pigs. My visit to Istria was timed perfectly. It was autumn and thus the season for white truffles, which are more pungent, flavourful and expensive than other truffles.
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