Comments on: first Alba truffles of the year @TonyVallone http://dobianchi.com/2012/10/17/first-alba-truffles-of-the-year-tonyvallone/ Negotiating the Epistemologic Implications of Oenophilia Sun, 19 May 2013 03:37:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: NudoCrudo / NakedRaw http://dobianchi.com/2012/10/17/first-alba-truffles-of-the-year-tonyvallone/#comment-51645 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:51:53 +0000 http://dobianchi.com/?p=18774#comment-51645 Aura, from breeze, as they magically, out of the air, appeared, these truffles? Or is this a Tuber instead on Viagra reference? Or are you referring to the illegal truffle trade via overnight airfreight? Am I gonna have to bust out Naturalis Historia? Sorry, Friday I have more questions than answers.

]]> By: Do Bianchi http://dobianchi.com/2012/10/17/first-alba-truffles-of-the-year-tonyvallone/#comment-51642 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:05:17 +0000 http://dobianchi.com/?p=18774#comment-51642 Ernest, you of all people should get my paronomasia!

And I stand corrected re. the truffles…

]]> By: ernest http://dobianchi.com/2012/10/17/first-alba-truffles-of-the-year-tonyvallone/#comment-51637 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:07:28 +0000 http://dobianchi.com/?p=18774#comment-51637 I second Alfonso. I went truffle hunting this last month in Colli Tortonesi (almost all ‘Alba’ truffles come from there) and south of Siena. No dice. I’ve never heard Croatia, Romania, on the other hand, provides some ridiculous high proportion of those ‘local’ porcini and truffles in Italy.

]]> By: Alfonso Cevola (@italianwineguy) http://dobianchi.com/2012/10/17/first-alba-truffles-of-the-year-tonyvallone/#comment-51574 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:13:51 +0000 http://dobianchi.com/?p=18774#comment-51574 actually truffles are late this year because of the drought, according to folks here in Alba. There is also huge talk of truffles coming in at night from Croatia and being sold world wide as Alba white truffles. Be careful, they may be good, but they may not be made in Italy.

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