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Nothing trifle about truffles
Updated On: 24 November, 2013 08:37 AM IST | | Dhiman Chattopadhyay
Not without reason do truffles hold such pride of place across European cultures. Dhiman Chattopadhyay samples a true Italian meal complete with white truffles (that cost Rs 5 lakh per kg) and comes away thanking Esmeralda (Gerald Durrell, anyone?) and all other pigs and dogs that have dedicated their lives to sniffing out truffles
Only pigs and apparently one canine breed Lagotto Romagnolo can be trained to sniff out these underground gems. But let alone the animals, even their owners cannot afford to keep and consume the truffles that their trusted pets sniff out for them from the forests. So expensive are truffles that finders are seldom keepers.

Truffles in Insalata di Gamberoni
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