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Bob Strauss March 3, 2021Updated: March 23, 2021, 5:31 pm
A scene from “The Truffle Hunters.” Photo: Sony Picture Classics
“The Truffle Hunters” takes us to a part of the world where time appears to have stood still. But that’s deceptive. Men and nature alike have reached late stages in the rural districts of Piedmont, Italy, that this documentary gorgeously displays. Centuries-old ways of life are being affected by climate and social change. Love for dogs and doing just about anything for a good meal are among the few remaining constants.
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s film coming to Bay Area theaters on Friday, March 26 puts us right into the grueling search for white Alba truffles, the region’s elusive and delicious fungus that’s defied cultivation and is prized by gourmets worldwide. Specially trained dogs sniff them out, and their masters, most of whom would be great-grandparents by now if they weren’t such scruffy bachelors, dig them u