February 23, 2012

Cultivating a Proper Taste for Truffles

One gourmet blessed with command of language clarified truffles’ flavour as “mushrooms to the ability of ten with a hint of garlic”-hardly a shy and retiring flavour. Cooking with truffles, however, requires a delicate touch and a abundance of practice, since the truffle-trained palette is more than a small discerning. The longer you study these mysterious, exotic rare fungi, the more you must accept that human beings who acquire and savour these precious delicacies do not live in the same earth, breathe the same air, glance at the same books, or travel in the same circles as Larry Lunchbox. More information: more info