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Cooking, Food, Wine and Travel in Umbria, central Italy.
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Video of Truffle Hunting Trip in Umbria
A video of a recent truffle hunting trip in the forests above Spoleto:...
Some Truffle and Truffle Hunting Information
I have posted some truffle and truffle hunting information on our website as a beginners guide to truffle hunting (a section of which I reproduce below). The intention is to add to it over time... What is a truffle? Truffles......
A Truffle Hunting Trip in Italy –Finding Truffles in the forests of Umbria
At the weekend it was the annual truffle market in Norcia and we were out on a truffle hunting trip in the forests above Spoleto. Although the haul wasn’t enormous (only one small “precious” black truffle and a handful of......
Photos of Truffle Hunting in Umbria
I came across (thanks to the blog of Gareth Renowden, author of the excellent "The Truffle Book") some nice photos of truffle hunting in Umbria near Spoleto in the Australian "Regional Food" magazine: http://www.regionalfood.com.au/RF2/mmedia/truffle...
Pressing our Umbrian Olive Oil
After the picking it was off to the olive oil press... The olive oil is cold pressed (you can see it trickling down through the pressing mats in one part) and has a delicious peppery taste. After we got the......
Olive Picking in Umbria
Last week we finally got round to doing some olive picking. It was fairly late in the season but it was a beautiful crisp sunny day which helped (along with the steady stream of espressos and treats that got passed......
