Pete' PointsWhoo hoo! Not only is this not a trifiling success, but the BBC actually beat Australian media to a story of culinary importance. Diners in Australia are in for a treat!
Australia's truffling success
They are synonymous with French haute cuisine, but the cultivation of truffles in Australia has proved such a success that the first batch has been exported abroad.
Duncan Garvey pioneered Australia's truffle plantations
This has brought a touch of Provence to upland regions of south-eastern Australia, where conditions most closely resemble those of Europe's best-known truffle-growing area.
It is a perfect winter's day and ideal for a truffle hunt.
The sun is shining, the sky is a deep blue and the hazel and oak trees are rustling gently in the breeze.
But this is not Provence or Perigord. Instead I am in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, just two hours' drive from Sydney.
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I heard this today. I'd only thought truffles were being grown in one place in Tasmania, but its more widespread than that, with truffles grown in the Southern Highlands and also in Victoria according to the BBC story.
Must get out and try some!
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