Truffle recipes extra!

....just keep it simple

Truffles are taste-enhancers with added pheromones. The pheromones are the excitement-factor and the reason these particular fungi-cousins are so sought-after. They’ve done the chemistry: truffles are indeed an aphrodisiac. The underlying fragrance of the Piedmont (aka Alba) white truffle, T. magnato, the rich man's tuber, is parmesan and garlic with an undertone of - well - the seductive fragrance of a Roman orgy. The two high-value blacks, T. melanosporum and the cheaper summer truffle, T. aestivum (or burgundy or English truffle) release aromas of meat-juices robust enough to stand up to the heat of the fire. All are taste-enhancers equipped with a memory-trigger so that pigs and people, their chief spore-spreaders, don't forget the patch of woodland in which and when they were found. Nature does what it needs to do, like it or not.