WORTH THE TROUBLE?
Interested in eating truffles? No, not the chocolate type, but those curious, black, richly scented fungi that can cost a fortune. A truffle is an edible ascomycete fungus. The edible part is found underground where it grows like a tuber. The name “truffle” literally means lump or tuber, which is also the fungus’s botanic name: Tuber melanosporum.
Truffles are very expensive to buy, strongly flavoured and used sparingly when added to dishes such as omelettes, pasta or pizza, or infused into oils.
ORIGIN OF TRUFFLES
Edible truffles are native to Europe, particularly Spain, France and Italy, but are now grown around the world. Truffles form a close relationship with the
