{"id":98,"date":"2008-06-24T17:29:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T04:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/bring-out-the-bianchetto\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T17:29:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T04:29:43","slug":"bring-out-the-bianchetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/bring-out-the-bianchetto\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring out the bianchetto!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/westonborchi3.jpg?resize=425%2C329\" width=\"425\" height=\"329\" alt=\"Westonborchi3.jpg\" class=\"centre\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Jeff Weston&#8217;s Borchii Park truffiere near Christchurch produced its first bianchetto truffles. It was an early fruiting, brought on by late summer rains, and the truffles didn&#8217;t achieve full ripeness. But it augured well for the season &#8211; which has just got under way in earnest. Hugo (above) has been busy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/westonborchi4.jpg?resize=425%2C366\" width=\"425\" height=\"366\" alt=\"Westonborchi4.jpg\" class=\"centre\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are good ripe truffles &#8211; the southern hemisphere&#8217;s first commercial crop of <em>Tuber borchii<\/em>, and Jeff is beginning to sell them on to keen chefs around the region. The largest so far have been 136g and 137g. Being a scholar and a gentleman, he&#8217;s popped a sample in the post to me. Tomorrow night&#8217;s dinner is going to be interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Jeff Weston&#8217;s Borchii Park truffiere near Christchurch produced its first bianchetto truffles. It was an early fruiting, brought on by late summer rains, and the truffles didn&#8217;t achieve full ripeness. But it augured well for the season &#8211; which has just got under way in earnest. Hugo (above) has been busy&#8230; These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/bring-out-the-bianchetto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bring out the bianchetto!<\/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-98","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\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}