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Ep. 106: Truffle Hunting, Raising a Truffle Dog & Managing Truffle Forests (feat. Melissa Waddingham)

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What Species of Truffle Are We Talking About?

There are about 38 species of truffles in the UK. The most common is tube stium vancanatum, which was once considered two different species but now we know its the same species. When it's cooked, it's pretty vile when it's not cooked. Some of them are like unatubemcentericum, it smells like hospital floor and rotten eggs. But orderly enough, when you cook it,. all those horrible connotations go, and it retains truffliness.

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