Damian Pike Wild Mushroom Specialist at Prahran Market will be receiving the first shipment of the delicious Tuber Melanosporum truffles from the Wine and Truffle Company on June 11 2009. Don't miss out!

Truffles are subterranean fungi which grow underground on the roots of trees that are infected with truffle spores. Truffles are round, warty, and irregular in shape and vary from the size of a walnut to that of a man's fist. Their pungent and unique flavour is held in high culinary esteem internationally. Brillat-Savarin called truffles 'the diamond of the kitchen'.

BUT BUYER BEWARE - beware of 'false truffles'- there are other types of truffles being sold in Australia at the moment that are coming from Spain (in the wrong season - their summer) and other varieties of truffles grown in places like China. These truffles do not have the same aroma or flavour and are known as 'false truffles'. Do NOT be fooled into parting with good money for these very inferior truffles. ALWAYS ask where they are from and what species they are.