![\"Truffle2008-1.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/truffle2008-1.jpg?resize=425%2C320\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
First one of the 2008 season. Only 14 g, not very ripe (see the reddish tinge between the warts on the skin?). The flesh is whitish brown, and there’s not much aroma. Peg showed a tiny bit of interest, and when I put the rake through the surface, up popped this little treasure. Same tree as our first truffle, back in 2006. I reckon it will be a week or two before any others will be approaching ripeness. Fingers crossed…<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I’m flying across to Tasmania in the morning to research an article for Food & Wine<\/em><\/a> magazine in the USA. Apparently I have to stay at a selection of top lodges, taste fine wines and whiskeys, and eat in the best restaurants. It’s a tough assignment, but someone has to do it. I hope to catch up with Tim Terry of Truffles Australis, who’s very pleased<\/a> with a 477 g truffle he found a week ago. No doubt he will point out that his is bigger than mine… Back in NZ, the Langham Hotel in Auckland is boasting<\/a> about its first truffle purchase of the season, and lagotto owners Chris and Jane Counsell have proved fine truffle dog trainers. Their Flickr collection<\/a> shows Mia finding truffles at Alan Hall’s Gisborne truffiere at her first attempt. Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First one of the 2008 season. Only 14 g, not very ripe (see the reddish tinge between the warts on the skin?). The flesh is whitish brown, and there’s not much aroma. Peg showed a tiny bit of interest, and when I put the rake through the surface, up popped this little treasure. Same tree … Continue reading And so it begins…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truffles-farm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}