Black truffle

Truffe noire

What it is

Brillat-Savarin called it “the diamond of the kitchen”. For centuries pigs hunted it — too well, since they ate their finds — until trainers switched to dogs, who trade the black nugget for a biscuit without regret.

In the kitchen

Never cook it hard: shave it over warm eggs, pasta or potatoes at the last second. Store it with your eggs — the perfume passes through the shell.

Goes with

Egg Potato Rice Parmesan Cream Chicken

Same species

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

Also used with

Amourettes (spinal marrow) Brie Brie de Meaux Capon Jerusalem artichoke Lyon cooking sausage

In season alongside

Goose White truffle Woodcock Bleu de Termignon Japanese amberjack (buri) Mallard

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