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Fri 07 Jul 2010Doing the business in truffles and sound
WILD GEESE: PETER CLEARY General Manager of Eissound, Spain;SOON AFTER I met Peter Cleary we were plodding up a snow-covered hillside near Soria, north of Madrid, as a small mongrel dog searched for truffles. It wasn’t a particularly successful truffle hunt because the ground was too frozen for the poor animal to smell the underground tuber, and then too hard to dig them out.
But a couple of weeks later we were luckier, and Peter cooked a delicious lunch consisting of an enormous plate of truffles with scrambled eggs. I mention truffles first because there were many more of the wonderful black nuggets than eggs in that wonderful dish which I remember to this day.
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