Educational and gastronomic journey to the discovery of the truffle–producing dispositions of Piedmont

On Monday, 2nd December, at 8:00 p.m., in the Aula 2 of Eataly Lingotto, we invite you to take an educational–gastronomic journey to discover the truffle–producing dispositions of Piedmont. Truffles do not grow everywhere, you know, but how to identify the most suited places?

We have prepared an educational tasting, during which you will discover the origins of truffle and taste the White Truffle of Alba in some combinations offered by our truffle expert restaurant.

The tasting will be guided by Igor Boni, Head of the Operative Unit for the Protection of the Soil of IPLA, and Silvio Locatelli, sommelier enabled to the management of AIS courses and professor of Eataly. At the event the Assessor Alberto Cirio has been invited with the task of promoting and protecting the truffle–production.

At the end of the educational dinner, all participants will receive as a gift the “Atlas of the truffle–producing dispositions of Piedmont” edited by IPLA (Piemont Region, 2011). It is a cartographic atlas of the disposition of the soils for the production of “valuable white”, “valuable black” and “black summer” truffles.

For the dinner, Franco Carena and Chef Roberto Moiso of La Cascata Restaurant propose:

Aperitif with Verduno sausage

Valerian salad with black truffle

La Granda “Battuta al coltello” with White Truffle of Alba

Egg “Tajarin” with White Truffle of Alba

Fondue with White Truffle of Alba

Hazelnut tart with Moscato zabaglione

In combination

Arneis Pradalupo Fontanafredda 2012

Barolo Serralunga d’Alba Fontanafredda 2007

THE DINNER COSTS €50, WINES INCLUDED. CLICK HERE TO BOOK

On the Atlas:

The atlas of the soil disposition for the valuable truffles of Piedmont, produced by IPLA SpA on behalf of the Piedmont Region, identifies the lands with greater vocation to the production of the precious underground fungus. Using a survey methodology developed by FAO and thanks to the maps of the soils of the Piedmont Region, geographical areas over which soils and climate are favorable to the development and the fruiting of truffles have been identified with precision. The maps concern the valuable white truffle, the valuable black truffle and the black summer truffle.