From ground to plate – the story of a summer truffle
Somewhere in a wood, its exact location shrouded in secrecy, ‘black diamonds’, ‘culinary gold’ ‘fairy apple’ ‘black queen’ ‘gem of poor lands’ ‘fragrant nugget’ and the ‘black pearl’ are found. Their Latin name is ‘Tuber aestivum’ but we know them as truffles, and it’s here in South…