Summer truffle

Truffe d’été

What it is

A fraction of the price of the winter black truffle and a fraction of the perfume — the flesh is pale hazelnut rather than dark, and the aroma is faint. It is honest, but it is not a substitute, and menus that blur the two are being careless.

In the kitchen

Do not cook it and do not pay winter prices. Shave it raw over something warm and fatty at the last moment.

Goes with

Egg Butter Parmesan Cream Potato Arborio rice Olive oil Chicken

Same species

Bagnoli truffle Bianchetto truffle Musky truffle Burgundy truffle Chinese truffle Oregon white truffle

In season alongside

Bay bolete Bintje potato Bronze bolete Charcoal burner Charolais St George’s mushroom

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