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Tuesday, June 2. 2015

Truffle dogs in Umbria

We are truffle fans. I have hiked those truffle woods in Umbria.




Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink, Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc. at 18:21 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Excuse my immaturity, but those truffles look like horse poop.
i always wondered how they prevented the pigs that hunt truffles from eating them.
and that video had the most annoying music ever.

Good video though. Thanks.
#1 fjord on 2015-06-02 19:50 (Reply)
Lots of things that are great to eat look and smell like something horrible before being properly prepared.

Easier to keep pigs from eating a truffle than keep dogs from destroying one. Pigs are much slower and don't range as far. When a pig detects a truffle it has to root with its large snout to find it, something that's easier to spot and quickly stop.

Stay tuned and just keep larnin', young un!
#1.1 Earl T on 2015-06-03 08:59 (Reply)
Some years back (26 years or so) we were visiting small local Oregon wineries tasting and buying wines we liked. This tiny winery had made a chardonnay bottled with a small local truffle placed in the bottle. The cost was high so he charged $1 for a small taste. Wow! That was good. I could still taste it weeks later. That would be a great wine to use in cooking.
#2 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-06-02 22:52 (Reply)

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