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What (who) is Truffle - definition

FRUITING BODY OF A SUBTERRANEAN FUNGUS (HERE FOCUS ON CUISINE, NOT ON TAXONOMY)

Truffles; Truffel; Truffle mushrooms; Truffle (fungi); Truffle salt; Truffle (fungus); Truffe; Appalachian truffle; Tuber canaliculatum

truffle

¦ noun

1. a strong-smelling underground fungus that resembles a rough-skinned potato, considered a culinary delicacy. [Family Tuberaceae.]

2. a soft sweet made of a chocolate mixture.

¦ verb [usu. as noun truffling] hunt for truffles.

Origin

C16: prob. via Du. from obs. Fr. truffle, perh. based on L. tubera, plural of tuber 'hump, swelling'.

truffle

(truffles)

1.

A truffle is a soft round sweet made with chocolate and usually flavoured with rum.

N-COUNT

2.

A truffle is a round type of fungus which is expensive and considered very good to eat.

N-COUNT

Truffle

·noun Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.

Wikipedia

Truffle

A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, predominantly one of the many species of the genus Tuber. In addition to Tuber, over one hundred other genera of fungi are classified as truffles including Geopora, Peziza, Choiromyces, and Leucangium. These genera belong to the class Pezizomycetes and the Pezizales order. Several truffle-like basidiomycetes are excluded from Pezizales, including Rhizopogon and Glomus. Truffles are ectomycorrhizal fungi, so they are usually found in close association with tree roots. Spore dispersal is accomplished through fungivores, animals that eat fungi. These fungi have significant ecological roles in nutrient cycling and drought tolerance.

Some truffle species are highly prized as food. French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin called truffles "the diamond of the kitchen". Edible truffles are used in Italian, French and numerous other national haute cuisines. Truffles are cultivated and harvested from natural environments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle

Examples of use of Truffle

1. Palazzo Ducale is now hosting a seasonal truffle festival, with the possibility of ordering truffle as an addition to any dish on the menu –– at 3'0 rubles per gram of white truffle or 160 rubles per gram of black truffle.

2. Created from the highest quality ingredients, the milk and dark chocolate exteriors reveal four meltingly soft truffle centres including vanilla truffle, milk and dark truffle with real cocoa pieces and rich roasted hazelnut.

3. Starving kids in Africa – have these Truffle eating idiots no shame? – Sue G, Perth, Scotland Cath, I don‘t think too many, it‘s a pretty small truffle, hehehe.

4. The chefs at Palazzo Ducale say they use natural truffle oil to give a dish its truffle flavor, but they charge accordingly.

5. Suffice to say that men (always men, apparently) and their truffle hounds go out at night to known truffle hotspots, usually armed with a gun.