Truffles, but not the chocolate type!
France is famous for truffles. You might be thinking of chocolate covered, melt in your mouth ganache, but in the Dordogne, while they do have lovely chocolate truffles, natural truffles, a type of mushroom that makes your food taste like paradise, are found in the ground under trees by dogs specially trained to sniff them out..
We decided to find out what all the fuss was about and set out to visit Xavier and Rigo (his truffle hound) in a rural hamlet North of Bergerac. We had Bonnie, our black lab, with us and while we introduced ourselves to Xavier, the dogs hit it off straight away.
Bonnie was on Rigo’s turf and she didn’t know much about truffling. She had a lot to learn!!