White Truffles

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White truffles are fungi that grow a few inches beneath the earth at the base of oak, hazelnut and beech trees. People use to use hogs to find them the hog would eat them so the shroom hunter had to knock out the hog so they started using dog cause its easier to train a dog. The gourmet mushrooms grow in Italy, in the Piedmont region and near Alba. Oil produced from these truffles gives even the most simple dishes a rich and complex flavor. Their also very expensive and very hard to find.