Re: Truffles
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Truffles
- From: s*@bway.net
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:56:30 -0500
>You can eat them "plain" and should, but they go well in omlettes too. Just
>hideously expensive. They grow in Italy too, apparantly but the French
>consider Italian truffles very inferior. And "gourmet" food should never
>taste bad-otherwise it's not being done very well at all.
>
>Bob Campbell
>USDA 4
>Southern Ontario
The whole appeal of truffles (at least the original one) is that they
contain flavor enhancing chemicals (on a molecular level which interact
with one's taste buds). They are supposed to be the best natural flavor
enhancer in nature. Other (less powerful) common flavor enhancer examples
are onions and garlic. Garlic actually has twice the flavor enhancing
ability of onion due to it's molecular 'Y' shape, to onion's '/' shaped
molecule.
The above info was given to us by a chef, and a graduate of Cornell
University, who said he learned it in a cooking chemistry course.
Bill & Harvey
SKID Plants Zone 6 CT USA
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