We would be in Provence in June and July and, in fact, would be leading a tour group in June. I wrote a few articles about winter truffles and, somewhere along the line, I must have read about summer truffles but they just didn’t strike a chord until late this past spring when friend Germaine Juneau raved about a truffle hunt she had just taken. We fell in love with the earthy aroma and pungent musky taste of black truffles. (from Spain), attended local truffle fêtes, and later went to the renowned “Mass for the Truffles” in Richerenches. We learned more as we talked to friends Heidi and Mark Stanvick who, at the time, were importing truffles to the U.S. We jumped at the chance for a hands-on adventure and, at the end of a morning right out of a Peter Mayle book, came home with a several truffles the coach had kindly parted with. Our daughter’s soccer coach got wind of our salon encounter and invited us to accompany him (and his dog) on a truffle hunt. We took them home, stored them with the eggs, and made an omelet for lunch the next day. Before I got there, he had made the purchase of three firm, fragrant black truffles. Soon everyone was on their cell phones, including my husband who called me to say that he wasn’t sure what was going on but that I had better come down to the salon. Noses were inserted deep into the bag, followed by audible oohs and ahhs. He carried a medium-sized brown paper bag that he covertly opened for each client who was waiting for a turn in one of the four chairs. My husband was having his locks trimmed at a popular hair salon when the mistral seemed to blow in a rather weather-beaten looking fellow through the door.
Our first encounter was probably at the hairdresser on a chilly December afternoon about fifteen years ago. black or Périgord truffles and, in Latin, as Tuber melanosporum). Living in the Luberon in late fall and winter, one can’t help but cross paths with a winter truffle (a.k.a. I began the summer with a truffle hunt, later went to a truffle fête, and then tried (in vain) to squeeze in a visit to Carpentras-long famous for their winter truffle market-to see their first endeavor at a summer truffle market.
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