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It’s the Season for Truffle Trees…

April and May are very busy months for American Truffle Company as it's inoculation season for new truffle trees that will be shipped to our client partners this winter. Because the process involves rigorous testing and verification before the inoculation, preparation actually starts much earlier, in February. We typically grow truffle trees only to order, [...]

2020-04-28T15:27:22-07:00May 15th, 2015|Truffle News|

Dr. Paul Thomas: Truffle Talk with the BBC

There was a time when wild truffles could be found throughout the UK and Europe’s woodlands, but with the eradication of the old forests for building material, firewood and agriculture, most of the wild truffles were eliminated. In fact, today over 95% of all truffle production from France alone comes from cultivated sources. In a [...]

2020-12-07T19:03:30-08:00April 21st, 2015|Climate Change, Truffle News|

Making history: American Truffle Company’s Chief Scientist Dr. Paul Thomas has harvested the FIRST EVER cultivated British truffle.

The BBC and other leading news outlets have featured American Truffle Company's (ATC) Chief Scientist Dr. Paul Thomas in perhaps the most significant news in the truffle world in generations: the first commercially farmed truffle using the scientific methods that he developed was just harvested in the UK.

2020-04-29T13:54:46-07:00March 14th, 2015|Truffle News|

ATC’s Chief Scientist Dr. Paul Thomas on the BBC

American Truffle Company's partner/chief scientist Dr. Paul Thomas (based in the UK) created the highly rigorous scientific methods for truffle cultivation practiced by ATC. He started six years ago with a planting in the UK and has since had harvests with partner orchards in Spain and Australia. This harvest in the UK is significant because [...]

2017-02-17T15:30:53-08:00March 12th, 2015|Truffle News|

Growing Black Diamonds In The Napa Valley

Nob Hill Gazette (July) THEN (2008, Munich): A man walks into a restaurant: a young Stanford graduate (Bachelor of Science degree in engineering; Master of Science degree in biology); an Italian bistro. He (let’s call him the techie) orders butter-tossed tagliatelli with black truffles shaved on top. He never had truffles before; it was a [...]

2020-04-18T14:43:43-07:00July 18th, 2014|Truffle News|

7 Tips, Tricks & Recipes for Cooking With Truffles

Napa's Chef Ken Frank Discusses 7 Tips, Tricks & Recipes for Cooking With Truffles LocalLuxe/San Francisco Guide ... Below are seven truffle tips, tricks, recipes and lies that were unveiled by Ken Frank, Executive Chef/Owner of Michelin Star La Toque restaurant at The Westin Verasa Napa. Chef Frank says he has eaten more truffles than [...]

2016-07-30T09:20:27-07:00July 18th, 2014|Truffle News|

Australia’s Largest-Ever Truffle Weighs 2.5 Pounds

Australia's burgeoning truffle industry dug up its largest-ever specimen earlier this week, in what some are calling a true sign of competition for France's black Périgord truffle industry: The Guardian reports the 1.172 kilogram truffle (roughly 2.5 pounds) was unearthed at New South Wales farm Yelverton Truffles. In a Facebook post documenting the find, Yelverton growers note that "our scales were not large [...]

2016-07-30T09:20:21-07:00July 16th, 2014|Truffle News|
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