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Truffles mix of potency and scarcity makes them an extraordinary, rare ingredient — but it's one worth seeking out.
There’s simply nothing like truffle. ‘It’s a smell that is at once earthy and divine, damp soil and heavenly choirs,’ wrote Tom Parker Bowles in last week’s
Country Life.
‘Sensuous and debased, too, where careless whispers meet illicit delight. For some, it is simply too much, an overwhelming odour that flattens all in its path.
‘For me, however, they err on the divine, a miraculous tuber that can transform the most everyday of dishes into rapturous expressions of gastronomic glee.’