Victoria’s truffle-hunting dogs
MEET the dogs of the truffle hunt. These highly trained pooches know how to sniff out the lucrative fungus, as truffle season kicks off in Victoira.
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THEY are elusive and have food lovers effusive — the mysterious fungus known as black truffle.
The Victorian truffle season has started, and this winter there’ll be more than 40 “truffle hunts” held around the state, where specially trained dogs such as Ziva, Isadora, Spice and Trixie sniff out the prized truffles that grow underground on the roots of oak and hazelnut trees.
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This weekend, more than 50,000 people are expected to head to the Queen Victoria Market for Truffle Melbourne, a festival dedicated to demystifying this most mysterious of ingredients.
There’ll be tastings and cooking demonstrations, with truffles turning up on toasties and in burgers, sliced on pizza and shaved across pasta, along with truffle beer and even a truffle cider.
Truffle Melbourne director Nigel Wood said Melbourne chefs were becoming more adventurous with using truffles, pairing the perfumed fungus with pork, chocolate and even ice cream.
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