Truffle hound : on the trail of the world's most seductive scent, with dreamers, schemers, and some extraordinary dogs / Rowan Jacobsen.
Guaranteed to spark America's next great culinary passion, a James Beard Award-winning author explores the secretive and seductive world of truffles, the elusive food that has captured hearts, imaginations and palates worldwide.
Truffles attract dreamers, schemers, and sensualists. People spend years training dogs to find them underground. They plant forests of oaks and wait a decade for truffles to appear. They pay $3,000 a pound to possess them. They turn into quivering puddles in their presence. Jacobsen takes us into a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, obsessive chefs, quixotic scientists, and muddy dogs to show us that there's more to truffles than we ever imagined. -- adapted from jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781526618719
- ISBN: 1526618710
- ISBN: 1635575192
- ISBN: 9781635575194
- Physical Description: 291 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Down the rabbit hole -- Black magic apple of love -- The Alba connection -- Remembrance of truffles past -- Hocus pocus -- Big truffle -- Tartufi Town -- Moon in crescendo -- Black autumn -- Mr. Big -- Family -- The Saint Ladislaus Order of Truffle Knights -- The inside of the inside -- El Milagro -- Winter people -- Carolina gold -- The mysteries of Oregon -- New tricks -- Bonus track: The legend of Gustave -- Recipes. |
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Subject: | Truffles. Truffle culture. Truffle culture. Truffles. |
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Truffle Hound : On the Trail of the World's Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs
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Truffle Hound : On the Trail of the World's Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRà SIMON AWARD 2021 ' Truffle Hound , like a truffle, charms by seducing us' Mark Kurlansky A captivating exploration into the secretive and sensuous world of truffles, the elusive food that has captured hearts, imaginations, and palates worldwide. The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to lead Rowan Jacobsen down a rabbit hole into a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, obsessive chefs, quixotic scientists, muddy dogs, maddening smells, and some of the most memorable meals ever created.Truffles attract dreamers, schemers, and sensualists. People spend years training dogs to find them underground. They plant forests of oaks and wait a decade for truffles to appear. They pay £2,170 a pound to possess them. They turn into quivering puddles in their presence. Why? Truffle Hound is the fascinating account of Rowan's quest to find out, a journey that would lead him from Italy to Istria, Hungary, Spain, England, and North America. Both an entertaining odyssey and a manifesto, Truffle Hound demystifies truffles--and then remystifies them, freeing them from their gilded cage and returning them to their roots as a sacred offering from the forest. It helps people understand why they respond so strongly to that crazy smell, shows them there's more to truffles than they ever imagined, and gives them all the tools they need to take their own truffle love to the next level. Deeply informed, unabashedly passionate, rakishly readable, Truffle Hound will spark Britain's next great culinary passion.