Sunday, January 7, 2007

Fete de la Truffe - When you have the real thing it all makes sense.


On a cold and crisp day we went over to Menerbres to a 'Truffle Festival' and bought some lovely truffley eggs. But at 70€ for a 100 grams the truffles were way out of our league. It's funny but I think a lot of people don't like truffles because, like olives, they probably haven't really had the real thing. A tasteless salty black 'olive' that you find on cheap pizzas and a fresh italian green olive stuffed with anchovy and chilli are nothing like each other, and equally a slimey little 'truffle' in a little glass jar that you find on supermarket shelves and a proper fresh (preferably white) truffle are not even on the same planet. Ashleigh always hated Parmesan cheese but she had only had that weird stinky powdered stuff in the little pots. When she tried the sweet crumbly aged REAL Parmensan she soon changed her mind!
When you have the real thing then it all makes sense.

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