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White and black Italian truffles on a wooden board

My private Italy: His Majesty, the Truffle

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I remember the first time a guide let me hold a white truffle before it went into the scale. It was heavier than I expected, cold, faintly damp, and it smelled like nothing I could name — garlic, hay, wet earth, something almost animal...