Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

1999

THE TÓFONA, THE QUEEN OF SECRET FLAVORS.

Tuber magnatum, Tuber melanosporum, Tuber aestium, it looks like a religious ejaculation and it almost is because the search, the secret and the use of the truffle have something ritualistic. Whether white, black or violet, the truffle is the queen of secret flavors and this flavor must be incorporated as soon as possible to all palates, by the hand of those cooks who dare to the challenge of integrating aroma and texture so differentiating in the game of complementary flavors.

Brillat Savarin said that the truffle made women more tender and men more pleasant. Today things have changed. Truffle makes women even nicer and men simply more tender. And to women and men, wiser.