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Media release – 2012 Canberra & Capital Region Truffle Festival dates announced
Canberra Region truffle growers, chefs, restaurants and foodies are getting set for a big year of truffles with the 2012 Canberra & Capital Region Truffle Festival kicking off on Thursday 21 June, our Winter Solstice. “This magical, wintry time of year brings with it the Canberra region’s highly prized quality French Black Truffles and marks [...]
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Digging up a bit of truffle history
A few Festivals back, Wayne collected and condensed a whole lot of truffle myths and history and we printed it up in a handout that we still use. There’s a PDF of it here if you’d like to read and keep a copy. One of the things we know is that the ancient Greeks and [...]
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No cheap flights so this prima donna is saving up
“The most important event in the agro-food exhibition in Umbria Norcia, which makes the prima donna of the last two weekends of February, invites everyone to immerse themselves in his fascinating exploration of the landscape and delicious taste. I think I know what they mean, the Amercan(?) language version of the NeroNorcia truffle festival site [...]
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Could it happen here?
It’s still truffle season in Europe and 60 Minutes have run a story (see below and it’s up on YouTube) that’s sensational enough for prime time but certainly well done and gives us an inside look into one of the biggest truffle dealers and exporters, the Italian Urbani company. It also talks about how the scarcity is [...]
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While we’re waiting for 2012 season
We keep an eye on the world truffle news and as the Northern half of the world moves towards harvest, the news alerts are turning up some interesting stories. We thought you might like to follow up on these. We have a ban on on the importation of Chinese truffles here but this story from [...]
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And the winners are…
Thanks to all of you who responded to our survey request, we have six winners for the Capital Region wine dozens, and we can only give the others who missed out our thanks. The winners are Jill Fraser, Wendy and Bill Nagy, Caroline Miller, Anna Rakyvd, Keith Stead and Skye Yuen. We’ll email you all [...]
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Lambert Vineyards Truffle Dinner
This is where the Truffle Festival slides into the Fireside Festival with only black truffle to hold together the seams. This was our last big dinner and chef Chris Whitlock had assembled seven truffle inspired courses. It was matched by Ruth Lambert with wines from their private collection, some of which, like the wonderfully smoky [...]
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Survey Prize Draw delayed
We didn’t have all the survey entries last night at the last Lambert Vineyards Truffle Dinner, so to be scrupulously fair, we’ll do the draw on Tuesday 16. There were forms from Locanda’s dinner to include. This gives those of you who haven’t entered to win our regional wine packs, the chance to still add [...]
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Pulp-Kitchen bids farewell to truffles
As we mentioned in the last post, that’s it at least for 2011. Christian may have a few truffles left in the fridge, but he chose to just have four truffle degustation dinners on Monday nights in July. And they were good.
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Creamed polenta, aged pecorino, fresh truffle
That has to be the simplest of combinations but it surpasses many of the more sophisticated truffle dishes I’ve tried this year. I’m moved to share it with you here after tasting it again at Christian Hauberg’s last Pulp-Kitchen Truffle Dinner for the Festival. I was photographing and making some video for the website and [...]
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