Food Porn: White Truffles Class w/ Chef Matt Storch
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The white truffle. Available for only a few months a year, this buried treasure is sold for $2500 a pound and is one of the most sought after ingredients on the planet. They are elusive, hidden underground. No longer sniffed out by pigs who had the audacity to occasionally eat them, the white truffle hunters have been replaced by the more trust-worthy canine. Their complex delicate taste is revered be chefs and diners everywhere, but you can only find white truffles in one place...the Piedmont area of Italy...and Fairfield County.
October-early December is white truffle season, and in celebration of these sublime fungi, Chef Matt Storch of Match Restaurant hosted a 12 course White Truffles Cooking Class at Clarke Culinary Center in Norwalk. Each course featured raw shaved white truffles (added at the last possible moment to preserve the taste of their ethereally earthy flesh). The smell alone could have kept the foodie in me satiated for days. Food porn warning: Browsing this photo gallery will make you hungry.
Chef Talk, Cooking Classes, Norwalk
Reader Comments (5)
Just visited the photo gallery. And I will sue this website for the food pornography that made me hungry! Haha. Thanks for this great share.
Question for Matt Storch- Will you be serving any of these beautiful white truffles at Match for the rest of us who missed the dinner? Do you have any left??
Ellen...so sorry you missed the dinner...and the answer is.....YES!....I have 4.5oz of those little beauties left, come and get them! Check out the specials online @ www.matchsono.com ...I will do the truffle either with risotto or pasta this weekend...see you soon!
Matt, so many people have asked if I'm sick of white truffles after that night. NEVER! Amazing night. Thanks again.
So glad you came Sally! See you soon!