Archive for 2006
Just Really Hungry Romances the Truffle
Maki, a Japanese American ex-Tokyoite, ex-New Yorker, currently living in beautiful Switzerland, globetrotter since birth (taking a deep breath) wrote a lovely blog with even better photos of her experience at the Marché aux Truffes in Richerenches, a tiny village tucked away in a corner of the Drôme, the north western part of Provence. You […]
Fungi Face and Walks in the Woods
Image if you were traipsing through the woods one day and came upon something like this? Well, I wasn’t traipsing through any woods, but in my Internet searches for fungi and fun I run across constant potential. This mushroom, sans facial expression, was discovered at the bigbluemeanie site, where you can read about author Emma […]
Top-Notch Mandolin
My email box is inundated with news about all the new truffle dishes that are being served around the country since truffle season opened a few weeks ago. Many of those stories mention the mandolin as an essential tool for shaving those truffles to a fine flake. The one that I see most often in […]
Weil and Winnie
Andy Weil gave an interesting interview to PBS Frontline recently. I read through it, and this paragraph caught my eye…
One of my earliest memories, was [being] lied to [as a child] about why I was going to the hospital. I was tricked into going there, not told that I was having surgery. The anesthesiologist lied […]
Black Truffles, St. Siffrein, and Carpentras
The most learned men have been questioned as to the nature of this tuber, and after two thousand years of argument and discussion their answer is the same as it was on the first day: we do not know. The truffles themselves have been interrogated, and have answered simply: eat us and praise the Lord. […]
Brigitte Wins Right to Pick
After a four-year legal battle, the U.K. Forestry Commission has conceded that Brigitte Tee-Hillman does have the right to carry on harvesting and selling the mushrooms as she has done for some 30 years. Mrs Tee-Hillman, 64, was arrested in the Forest in November 2002 for stealing wild mushrooms. Now she has license to pick […]
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