{"id":1517,"date":"2010-01-14T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bkwine.gobigtree.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2011-07-28T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:33:37","slug":"walnut-farmer-and-truffle-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/news\/walnut-farmer-and-truffle-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"From Parisian to walnut farmer and truffle hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just read this wonderful story by Tom Fiorina about how he became a truffle hunter<\/a>. Hunting truffles not with a pig, not with a dog. But with flies. Truffle flies.<\/p>\n

I have participated in a truffle hunt a few times and it’s always been with a dog. That’s what is usually the case these days. But I’ve heard it explained and seen it demonstrated that you can do it by letting the flies guide you. But I hardly thought it was true. But apparently it is.<\/p>\n

It’s a wonderful story and you should read all of it (it’s quite long but worth while).<\/p>\n

Just to illustrate it a bit, here’s a truffle fly (a real, but dead, one):<\/p>\n

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And here are a few illustrations of how you do it:<\/p>\n

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(No, that’s not Tom Fiorina on the picture)<\/p>\n

Here’s a rather normal size truffle:<\/p>\n

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And a really, really big one:<\/p>\n

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Here you can see the white pattern inside the truffle:<\/p>\n

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But back to hunting them. Digging to find it:<\/p>\n

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Here it is. What? You think it’s a stone?<\/p>\n

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Well, this may look like one but it tastes quite different from a stone, and costs a bit more:<\/p>\n

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If you don’t trust your fly finding capabilities:<\/p>\n

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Some truffles canapes perhaps?:<\/p>\n

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And if you have too many you can sell them at the market:<\/p>\n

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If you want to see more truffles and truffles hunting photos you can look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We occasionally organise truffle hunting tours for the enthusiasts. Where you can take part in a real truffle hunt a winter morning (you can only do it from December to February…). And once you’ve spent all morning outside, frozen to the bone (perhaps), we sit down around a lunch table and have a truffle lunch: appetizer with truffles, starter with truffles, main course with truffles, and a bit more truffles, cheese with truffles, dessert with truffles… It’s really a wonderful experience.<\/p>\n

If you’re curious you can find out more about our truffles and wine tours here<\/a>. Sometimes we have a truffles tour on our ”public” tour program but we also do them custom made on request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just read this wonderful story by Tom Fiorina about how he became a truffle hunter. Hunting truffles not with a pig, not with a dog. But with flies. Truffle flies. I have participated in a truffle hunt a few times and it’s always been with a dog. That’s what is usually the case these days. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[734,823,694],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blogs","tag-truffles","tag-wine-and-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}