White truffles

White truffle from Alba

The white truffle from Alba is the Tuber magnatum, or trifola d’Alba Madonna (“Truffle of the White Madonna” in Italian; Tuber Magnatum Pico or Alba truffle). You can find it in the Piedmont region in northern Italy.

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International Fine Food

Delicacies differ per culture, customs, country or even region. There are several reasons for this.

  • Often this is because the fine food only grows in specific regions and nowhere else; like saffron or civet cat coffee beans .
  • Some delicacies are tightly related to a certain culture; such as fugu in Japan, bird’s nest soup (made out of swiftlet nests) in China, and ant larvae (escamoles) in Mexico.
  • Or its is because the food is rare or expensive compared to standard foods; like caviar or Kobe beef.
  • The delicacy food has unusual flavors or characteristics; like cardamom or dark chocolate.
  • Or the process to produce the food is complex, takes a long time or uses a breed of animals that is scarce; like with jamon iberico de bellota from spotted pigs or pule cheese from donkeys.
  • Finally, delicacies vary also in time. Flamingo tongue was a highly prized dish in ancient Rome. Ambergris (whale puke) was used as a condiment in hot chocolate at the British court in the 17th century (Charles II) and in the 19th century as an ingredient if a rhum cocktail.

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Today’s luxury food is yesterday’s food for the poor

Also, the delicacies of today were foods for the poor yesterday. Only from the mid 19th century lobsters are considered to be a specialty food in North America an Europe. Before that they were only eaten by poor fishermen. The same for truffles which until the 20th century had a lower status than today’s potatoes.

For some of the delicacies you need to have an ‘acquired taste’; that is to enjoy something unlikely without having substantial exposure to it. Like edible bird’s nest soup.

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