27 January 2010
Oregon’s Truffle Hunting Dogs
Posted by admin under: News .
Oregon’s truffle hunting dogs steal the work of pigs: Charles Lefevre, who owns a leading truffle tree nursery needed dogs to find his maturing orchards’ underground fruit. Europeans historically hunted truffles with pigs, to which the irresistible musky aroma smells like a boar in love. Today, most foragers of wild truffles and those who cultivate them prefer trained dogs. Lefevre, an OSU-trained mycologist, envisions a broader benefit of hunting with hounds: boosting the culinary reputation of Oregon’s native truffles.
The author, Laura McCandlish, blogs at baltimoregon.com
Link to KBOO radio show on truffle hunting dogs:
http://kboo.fm/node/18932
Link to Oregonian article on truffle hunting dogs:
http://www.oregonlive.com/foodday/index.ssf/2010/01/truffle_hunter.html
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