Truffle Hound
eBook - ePub

Truffle Hound

On the Trail of the World's Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Truffle Hound

On the Trail of the World's Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs

About this book

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

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 $6,000 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 America's next great culinary passion.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781635575200
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Culinary Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Dedication
  4. By the Same Author
  5. Title Page
  6. Contents
  7. Epigraph
  8. Author’s Note
  9. 1. Down the Rabbit Hole
  10. 2. Black Magic Apple of Love
  11. 3. The Alba Connection
  12. 4. Remembrance of Truffles Past
  13. 5. Hocus Pocus
  14. 6. Big Truffle
  15. 7. Tartufi Town
  16. 8. Moon in Crescendo
  17. 9. Black Autumn
  18. 10. Mr. Big
  19. 11. Family
  20. 12. The Saint Ladislaus Order of Truffle Knights
  21. 13. The Inside of the Inside
  22. 14. El Milagro
  23. 15. Winter People
  24. 16. Carolina Gold
  25. 17. The Mysteries of Oregon
  26. 18. New Tricks
  27. The Dirty Dozen
  28. Color Plates
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Bonus Track: The Legend of Gustave
  31. Recipes
  32. Resources
  33. Index
  34. A Note on the Author
  35. Copyright

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