Now where was I. Ahhh, yes, white truffles! A truffle, for anyone who has not had the pleasure, is super duper expensive, highly sought-after, sometimes fought over, fruiting body belonging to the group of subterranean ascomycete fungi of the genus Tuber. In other words its a damn mushroom, geez! True truffles (there are some posers out there) absolutely love, love, love, trees. Because of this they snuggle up, underground very near to trees. Even though not everyone is able to smell truffles, I pitty the fool, they are in fact known for their incredibly pungent, earthy and intoxicating aroma. White truffles, and all sorts of sexy Italian people, come from Italy's Piedmont region and mostly famously from the countryside around the city of Alba. It is at this market that truffles are sold for anything between $1350 & $2700 per pound! Hogs have been used historically to help find truffles but now dogs are the preferable beast since they can be trained to just find the truffles and not eat them like those pesky little pigs do. Needless to say that the truffle lunch I mentioned last time was a feast fit for royalty and one that I shall not soon forget. Smelling my fingers, like I do everyday at 3:43 in the afternoon, I think I can almost still catch a faint aroma of the delicate, delectable, deadly delicious white truffle of Alba. Belissimo!
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