Can You Find Truffles Without A Dog?
by julie
Read this if you don’t have a truffle dog and are thinking about hunting for truffles using a rake.
Hunters
The Biggest White Truffles Ever Found.
by julie
Every year a handful of remarkable white truffles are found that cause a lot of fuss. Most truffle hunters will feel very lucky to find a truffle weighing over 200 grams, here we are talking about truffles around the kilo mark. These are the real prizes in the world of truffles, where the big money […]
Today’s White Truffles
by julie
For a good few years now I’ve been trying to get the hunters to take pictures of the truffles as they find them. They are usually too preoccupied with the job of getting the truffles out of the ground to bother photographing the event. I hope that this post will encourage them to keep a […]
Pigs or Dogs- Which Animal is the Better Truffle Hunter?
by julie
Often when I tell people that we hunt for truffles, their first question is about how we train the pigs. It seems that the use of pigs in truffle hunting is very firmly ensconced in the collective consciousness. In reality though, the vast majority of tartufai nowadays prefer to hunt with dogs. Truffling pigs were […]
‘The Truffle Underground’ book review.
by julie
One of the most interesting books I have read this summer was the investigative journalist Ryan Jacobs‘ expose on the truffle industry “The Truffle Underground.“ Our cousin Alberto had heard about the book and as it is not available in Italian, ordered it for me so that I could read it and translate the gist […]