The Truffle and its Mysteries

Numerous mysteries surround the cultivation of truffles, as everything about truffles is far from completely understood. And additionally, man has been able to manage them and keep them as a living species the continues to be cultivated.

St Antoine et son cochon.
St Antoine and his pig.


Therefore, is the truffle an aphrodisiac?

The answer is far from clear;
if the pig sow is so easily attracted to truffles
and seeks them out by odor,
it is because the odor is very similar to that of a male pig.

And then, Brillat Savarin the writer said :

“So let us continue to believe that they are aphrodisiacs and keep eating them!”