Oregon white truffle ◆

Truffe blanche d’Oregon

What it is

Separated from Tuber gibbosum as a species of its own only in 2010, the Oregon winter white grows under planted Douglas fir on cutover ground rather than in old forest. Raking a patch strips it for years, so the harvest has largely moved to dogs, which take only the ripe ones and leave the rest to finish.

In the kitchen

The aroma is gone within a week of lifting, so buy it dated and shave it raw over something hot and fatty — egg, potato, butter. Cooking it is throwing it away.

Goes with

Egg Butter Potato Parmesan Cream Hazelnut Chicken

Same species

Bagnoli truffle Bianchetto truffle Musky truffle Burgundy truffle Chinese truffle Pecan truffle

In season alongside

Chevrotin Pouligny-Saint-Pierre Sainte-Maure de Touraine Acorn Bintje potato Bleu de Termignon

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