White truffle, black truffle: the varieties of this delicious precious mushroom transform, thanks to their unique scent and flavour, a simple dish into a recipe for true gourmets. However, enjoying the truffle flavour is not an experience that can be granted only on certain occasions. In fact, the truffle proves to be a precious ally…
Knowing truffles means entering a world of nuances of taste, shades of colors, flavours, and scents. The truffle is a protagonist of the table full of charm and complexity, which avoids generalizations and lives on differences. Shortly, each truffle is different from another. That’s why, those who want to learn to know it must…
Truffles are underground mushrooms with an extraordinary scent, offering endless possibilities in the kitchen… but how to find truffles? Where to find truffles? The notions to know are many, and you cannot improvise truffle hunters overnight. However, if you have this passion, and you want to undertake this fascinating research, the first useful advice…
Each type of truffle has a precise harvest season. Let’s find out which is the right season to find a perfect product. There are more than one hundred types of truffles existing in nature, but only six varieties (of the nine considered edible) are marketed more frequently: these are the most successful. We…
Truffle and cheese is a very classic combination, almost obvious but, for this reason, even more difficult to propose in an ever-new way. Even the poet Umberto Saba, in his poem “Amai”, reiterates how even the simplest rhymes, because of their simplicity, are the most difficult to use. In fact, if you want…
Let’s discover the secrets of truffles in the kitchen with a short guide on how to cook truffles. Do you eat truffles raw? How do you cook fresh truffles? Find out the answers with Trivelli Tartufi’s truffle cooking suggestions. Types of truffles in the kitchen The truffle is a very particular underground mushroom that…
Truffle health benefits are underrated, so here is a quick explanation of the relationship between truffles and health. People usually associate the taste, the pleasure, the voluptuousness of a food to transgression or exaggeration. An old local joke goes: “all good things are either bad for your health or make you fat“. But…Is that true? …
Black winter truffles, also known as autumn truffle or tartufo uncinato, is a protagonist of this period of the year. Let’s discover more about It What is black winter truffle? The black winter truffle (a.k.a. tartufo uncinato, winter scorzone or autumn truffle) looks like a summer truffle but it is not. This black autumn/winter…
White and black truffles, are excellent protagonists in the kitchen: enhance their unmistakable flavor with the right wine-truffle pairing The truffle is an extraordinary underground mushroom, bringing excellence to any dish. In its most prized version ever (the white truffle of Alba) it reveals all its flavor if added, raw and in flakes, as a…
Black or White truffle, let’s find out more about truffles ranking. Characteristics and peculiarities that make a truffle precious. Recently, we’ve been talking about various types of truffles: the summer truffle (Scorzone), the white truffle and then the black winter truffle (tartufo uncinato or autumn truffle). Every truffle has its characteristics, its scents,…