Here Elisabeth Luard captures the essence of the truffle's almost magical power. On a more practical level, she also shows the reader how to get the very best from truffles, whether this means slivering a truffle over a tangle of home-made pasta, inserting delicate slices beneath the skin of a poulet de Bresse or even simply baking a truffle in a jacket of leftover bread-dough. The book not only provides a mouthwatering collection of authentic regional and classic recipes and a fascinating and occasionally eccentric account of truffle-hunting, it also includes a gazetteer of the places where truffles are to be found, recommends the key markets where they are to be bought and gives details of growers engaging in modern trufficulture - making it essential reading for sophisticated gourmet travellers and for all those who are, quite simply, prepared to be seduced by what is surely the ultimate gastronomic experience.
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At $2,000 a pound and up, you may not be able to give your truffle-loving friends any precious fungus, but you can make them experts on the topic by giving them this book. Learn what only those in the truffle trade know: the author, who is fluent in French, went to Périgord to hang out with the professionals. She even hunted her own truffles. -- The Nibble
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Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning writer on food and cookery, a journalist and a broadcaster. She has written two autobiographies with recipes, and published two novels. She regularly reviews books for the Daily Mail, the Scotsman, the Jewish Chronicle and the Literary Review. John Heseltine is an internationally known photographer specialising in food and travel. His work appears in national and international magazines -- including Italy magazine, to which he is a regular contributor -- and many illustrated books including the Dorling Kindersley Eye Witness travel guides.
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I bought this book for someone that is starting a truffle farm - great gift! Not only informative but also beautifully published.
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How does a rational person, accustomed to the daily business of cooking for a family, manage to fall in love with a subterranean fungus that looks like a lump of roughly cracked earth, smells like nothing you'd wish to describe in polite company, and has n Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Life and Food in the Dordogne by James Bentley on page 83, page 96, and Back Matter
- Two Towns in Provence: Map of Another Town and a Considerable Town by M. F. K. Fisher in Back Matter
- Good Food from Morocco by Paula Wolfert on page 156
- Wild about Mushrooms: The Cookbook of the Mycological Society of San Francisco by Louise Freedman in Back Matter
- Consider the Oyster by M. F. K. Fisher on page 49
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