The truffle’s aroma has been described as being somewhere between sex and old socks, but aficionados are prepared to pay big money for the delicacy.
Turalla Truffles is located on Bungendore Road, Bungendore NSW. Truffle farmer Damian Robinson is striding along a line of hazelnut trees, charting the mysteriously symbiotic relationships in the fungal world, when he offers a theory: “We are one chromosome removed from a pig and that’s probably why we like the smell of truffles so much.”
Damian doesn’t have a pig. He has a fiercely intense Jack Russell that’s a few…
