Looking for the best Provence black truffle

����How to find the black truffle

At ten am, sitting in the car to find truffles travel destinations, the scenery outside the window seems unlikely to go to the dense forests in the deep mountains. Going around and finally to a remote countryside, clearly written "signs Domaine de Bramarel" pointing a limestone texture, with Provence rural style houses. This is the destination, dig the truffle place, is home to Ayme truffles manor. It is full of adventure and imagination that truffle trip be quite different, what happened?

Find the best black truffle

Slowly approached the looks older vintages of the old house, the house came a dog barking. Ring with thick iron door, the owner of Gilles Ayme immediately and leave. As a unique sound, with black truffle taste of kerosene, nutty smell pungent smell with the door open with smell in the air, three Labrador Retriever and a beagle excitedly wagged his tail and welcome. Gilles had a sound let them slightly to quiet down, obviously there's no room can accommodate pig.

"Welcome to Ayme truffle manor. Our family of four generations of planting truffle, from 1850 began to try his grandfather cultivated truffle, now we have 11 hectares of truffle orchards." Gilles boundary introduce side picked up the table pots of fresh truffles to the dog sniff, "before starting, we must give them to continue with the smell of truffles." So, before with wild boar to find truffles in an unknown forest, and who can grab the truffle pig competition era has ended after the find. Now, the growth environment of truffles and how to cultivate, looking until sales have their own set of methods.

Call on the Labrador named Aria and Ely beagle, Gilles hand holding a small canvas bag with us to walk outside. The neat rows of oak forest stands in the round, winter leaves covered the ground, step up rustle sound let two puppies playing awfully. Take advantage of this opportunity, Gilles finally can properly introduced the Provence truffle.

Now France, truffles are concentrated in the south of Provence, southwest of Perigo as well as the Burgundy region. Before World War II, black truffle production this year, Provence vaucluse nearly 1500 tons, and now only 18 tons. Greatly reduced the price of truffle production exaggerated increase but also to the French began to study the self cultivation of truffles. "Love is the cold winter truffle. If a year without damp and foggy spring, and hot dry summer and in July and August uninterrupted rain can well nourished its growth. In general, rainfall, temperature and sunshine are the basic elements of truffles growth. In the quality and regularity of the truffle production, weather plays a very important role." Gilles explained.

Find the best black truffle

At this time, Ely suddenly stopped in a nearby oak tree, Voldemort sniffing deeply tone must quickly with claws dug soil, about 5~6cm deep stopped when the host Gilles yap. It found the goal, Gilles and then use the French called "special hook Faiji" with great care to dig the soil, then, the irregular took a dirt round black fungus unfolds in front of me. This is known as the black truffle, Ely knew she was successful, excitedly around in his feet, waiting for a piece of canvas bag of cookies rewards.

"Training a truffle hound takes time and patience. Let it like the taste of truffles from the dog, the black truffle powder mixed with the meat as food every day to the odor to reinforce its sense of smell. Then try this at home to black truffle, hide, let the dogs to find. Tell it to the truffles to find the owner, then it will have a biscuit or cookie reward. Finally began to start looking for truffle on the outside of the land." Gilles Ely so appreciated to touch this. In the Ayme truffle Park, all the dogs are trained by a family member, Gilles revealed the secret is to want to have enough patience, let the dog feels this is a kind of game, so that they can have fun in this game and will continue to play. The truth finally found in half an hour after testing seven or eight fresh truffle in.

Find the best black truffle

����The kitchen black your drill

The middle of the nineteenth Century, the famous French gastronome Jean Brillat-Savarin truffles called kitchen diamond. The strong smell of wild fungi in France now only about 40~50 tons of production, every kilograms of price is about 800 euro. According to the weather, crops and cultivars, floating price will go up and down. Because of its precious, the chefs dishes tend to carefully use as thin as paper truffles to add flavor.

"There are 32 kinds of black truffle different species in Europe, two of which is the most common and the highest utilization rate. One is the black truffle, another is the winter truffle. In the Ayme manor, cultivate four kinds of black truffle different, in addition to the above two, and autumn truffle or burgundy truffle, and summer truffles." Gilles side with the toothbrush cleaning just dug fresh truffles, while continuing to introduce. The next Gilles practices so that people can not help but exclaim, truffle dishes usually to a high-class restaurant to taste a lot, but fresh truffle slices dipped in olive oil on a slice of bread to eat together can never tried. This extravagant eating let fellow photographer constantly calculate every mouth exactly how much to eat into the belly of the euro. Gilles offers taste is black truffle, appearance also appear dark brown, the color according to different maturity truffle and change, white is the most young, then brown, and finally mature is black.

Smells earthy flavor and rich in flavour, black truffle entrance after feeling are crisp and fragrant thick nuts. When it is paired with different fresh ingredients, showing another amorous feelings. Bid farewell to Gilles, the next station is Provence province journey to center a called three St Paul Castle (Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux) town. The town is now owned by Relais & Chateaux group four-star Villa Augusta master David and Priscilla Mollicone and Gilles is both friend and customer relations, in November each year to March the following year, from Ayme garden fresh truffles sent black truffle let Villa Augusta have many good love truffles.

Grew up in the Delong province David my grandmother cooked, he on the area of land and culture has deep feelings. At the same time, the food of love let him decide in adulthood to turn it into a occupation. In Provence, a single meal mixed grandmother and grew up working in Asia travel experience, David presentation of the food color, full of passion. The truffle feast, David in Provence pastoral style as the keynote, the regional characteristic of fresh ingredients full fusion, with valuable truffles, to make it simple and is to one's heart's content.

With rich pastoral flavor of assorted assorted cold dishes, taste thick meat with truffle pieces full weight, plus olive, salted cherry sour vegetable & fruit, fresh feeling to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the taste buds. The next fish entrees, black truffle with Provence steamed fish. David attention to the change in the level of taste, tender meat that is the entrance, if only so seem tedious, apple slices and truffle wire joined crisp, sharp contrast to eating becomes more interesting.

Finally, a main dish double color egg dish is amazing, admire David with eggs to make the main course of courage, appreciate the fine thoughts and ideas. The use of truffles mixed with egg white fried in a disk around the center circle, living is steamed egg with exquisite skill. David skillfully will be separated from the protein and egg yolk, three layers inside the yellow and white contrast, bright color to increase appetite, after import with cashew nuts, fragrant and sweet feeling against each other to enhance.

At this time, Priscilla explained, in colder seasons, David will choose in the bottom covered with a layer of thick fragrant cheese, let a person feel deep happiness and satisfaction. This meal can be called luxury truffle feast, have to mention is, no matter how precious ingredients, if not properly reflect is useless. So, David cleverly truffle Caesar in the most basic simple dishes, so that water can better feel the food is wonderful.