I have eaten them in Italy on several occasions and I personally love the taste of it, especially grated over game sauce. I didn't realise though that they are quite prevelant in Wales. Time to get a pig me thinks!
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A crop of truffles harvested by a farming couple could be one of the most significant finds in the UK for 60 years, according to an expert.
About 10kg of the fungi, prized for their flavour in cooking, were found growing underground, near the Welsh border.
A sample sent off to Kew Gardens for analysis has revealed the spores match the English black summer truffle.
It is thought the truffles could be worth up to £3,000 on the open market.
They have been identified as summer truffles - tuber aestivum - and bought as a batch from the finders.
"One truffle is a huge 423 grams.
"The value of this one truffle is estimated to be around £150."
Roger Phillips, an international expert, examined the find, before sending a sample of the fungi to Kew Gardens to be classified, categorised and recorded.
Mr Phillips said: "We have not seen truffles in this sort of quantity in the UK in last 60 years.
"It is an amazing find; I am flabbergasted at how large they are.
"Some of the biggest truffles were bigger than records I have heard of."
The summer truffle is said to have a nutty, crisp texture and aromatic truffle flavour.
The farmer believes the spores may have travelled in the dung of some Limousin cattle he imported in from France for beef stock, during a period when he was trying a number of different methods of farming on his land.
The spores are not destroyed by the gut and it is thought the most common way fungi spread is in the faeces of cattle and deer.
