Late Autumn in Italy’s Piedmont is a sublime time of the year. The rush of harvest is over, vines are bare and the air is crisp, with snow beginning to fall on the Alps. The buz in Alba shifts from grapes to one of the world’s most expensive ingredients, the famous white truffle, or tartufo [...]

This time last year I was in Alba, eating just about anything and everything that you could shave a truffle on courtesy of Bruna Colla, my favourite home cook (sorry Mum). Needless to say, I made someone back home very jealous so when Maurice Santucci of Sosta Cucina in North Melbourne called with a truffle alert, I knew what had [...]