Have you eaten truffles?

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-12-2003
Have you eaten truffles?
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Tue, 04-21-2009 - 2:36am

Have you eaten truffles?



  • never
  • what's that?
  • just the white ones
  • just the black ones
  • only if in chocolates or on desserts
  • I love them
  • other


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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-01-2003
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 8:58am
i've never had real truffles. just the chocolate varieties :O)

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iVillage Member
Registered: 02-09-2007
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 9:06am

Only the chocolate ones!!!


Why do you ask?

 
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-14-2007
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 12:00pm

I love mushrooms, but don't recall ever having the opportunity to eat truffles.


I have eaten the chocolate kind though.


What made you think of truffles? Can you get them easily there at the market, or only in resturants?


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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-22-2005
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 12:54pm

Only the chocolate ones.


Von.

Von.

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2003
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 1:54pm
Just the chocolate ones for me~~
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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-12-2003
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:39pm

Well last night I received a bag with

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-12-2003
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 3:44pm

One can't buy them at all here, no one would know what they are.

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-09-2007
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 6:26pm

I always thought truffles were a delicacy ... and only found in Europe (I could be wrong about that) ....


I always had the feeling they were pricey, too ....


Hmmm ....


 
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-09-2007
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 6:31pm

By "here", do you mean Turkey?

 
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-09-2007
Tue, 04-21-2009 - 6:40pm

OMG Suzan ..... read this from Wikipedia ....


White truffle



White truffle washed and cut

The White truffle or Alba Truffle (Tuber magnatum) comes from the Langhe area of the Piedmont region in northern Italy and, most famously, in the countryside around the city of Alba. It is also found in Croatia, on the Istria peninsula in the Motovun forest alongside Mirna river . Growing symbiotically with oak, hazel, poplar and beech and fruiting in autumn, they can reach 12

 

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