TRUFFLE HOUND: ON THE TRAIL OF THE WORLD'S MOST SEDUCTIVE SCENT WITH DREAMERS, SCHEMERS, AND SOME EXTRAORDINARY DOGS. By Rowan Jacobsen.

2021 1st edition. 8vo (138 x 223mm). Ppxii,292. Colour photograph plates. Olive boards, spine titled in gilt.

This book "is the fascinating account of [the author's] quest to find out, a journey that leads him from Italy to Istria, Hungary to Spain, England, and North America. Both an entertaining odyssey and a manifesto, [this book] demystifies truffles - and then remystifies them, freeing them from their gilded cage and returning them to their roots as a sacred offering from the forest. ...Deeply informed, unabashedly passionate, rakishly readable, [this book] will spark Britain's next great culinary passion." Chapters include: Down the rabbit hole; Black magic apple of love; The Alba connection; Hocus pocus; Big truffle; Tartufi town; Moon in Crescendo; Black autumn; Mr Big; Family; The Saint Ladislaus Order of Truffle Knights; The inside of the inside; El milagro; Winter people; Carolina gold; The mysteries of Oregon; New tricks; The legend of Gustave; Recipes; Resources.