Ask a supplier the price of white truffle in July and the honest answer is that nobody knows yet. Unlike most food, fresh Tuber magnatum doesn't have a stable per-kilo...
Alba White Truffle vs Tuber Magnatum: is There a Real Difference?
Most people search for "Alba white truffle" without knowing that Alba is a town, not a species. Tuber magnatum is the truffle. Alba is where the biggest fair for it...
How to Use White Truffles: Five Piedmontese Dishes and the Rules Behind Them
There is a reason the classic white truffle repertoire is so small. Tuber magnatum has one of the most powerful aromas in food and one of the most fragile. Heat...
White Truffle Season (Tuber Magnatum): What to Know Before October
The white truffle season is short and almost entirely unpredictable, and it starts in about ten weeks. If you have ever tried to order fresh Alba white truffle in the...
Black Truffle Recipes: How to Cook Fresh Tuber Melanosporum Properly
Black Perigord truffle is the one truffle you are supposed to cook with. White truffle dies in a hot pan. Summer truffle is too polite to survive much. Melanosporum gets...
Black Perigord Truffles (Tuber Melanosporum): Why the Season Never Really Ends
Most people believe black truffle is a winter ingredient. For a long time that was true. Tuber melanosporum ripens in the cold, the French and Spanish harvest runs from late...
Summer Truffle Recipes: Seven Ways to Use Fresh Tuber Aestivum Before It Fades
A fresh summer truffle gives you about five days. After that you still have a truffle, but you no longer have the smell that made you buy it. So the...
Fresh Summer Truffles (Tuber Aestivum): A Straight Answer Guide to the Season
Every June the same question lands in our inbox. Someone has eaten shaved truffle in a restaurant in Umbria, come home, found a box of fresh summer truffles online, and...
Fresh Truffle vs Truffle Oil: What's Actually Different
If you've only ever had truffle oil, the first bite of an actual fresh truffle is usually a surprise. They share a name and a general flavor family, but they're...
Buying the right truffle is only half the job. The other half is knowing what to do with it once it's in your kitchen, because the same truffle can make...
Black Truffle vs White Truffle: What's Actually Different, and How Much You Need
Most people land on a truffle order with two questions half-answered: which one, and how much. Get either wrong and you either end up with a truffle that fights your...
A fresh truffle starts losing its aroma the moment it's pulled out of the ground. Nothing you do in your kitchen will stop that, but the right storage slows it...
