Truffles 101!!

Alba is the place in Piemonte to try the white truffle. We weren't sure how it worked... all the menus displayed the price/gm of truffle so as we were eating on the ground floor of a 3 star Michelin restaurant Ristorante Piazza Duomo we decided this was the place to try!  I hasten to add... we were not in the 3 star part!
However La Piola was more to our taste for a lunch!

We decided to order dishes which suggested having fresh truffles with them. When the food arrived it was quickly followed by a truffle!! With a weighing scale!

A note was made on the placemat of its weight.

Then the truffle was shaved onto our dishes, until we said 'stop'!

Then the truffle was again weighed......

And the calculation was shown to us!

One doesn't want to have too much! The average cost was 3.50 to 7 euros a gramme!
And 28 euros was added to our bill!!

Was it worth it?? Maybe.......maybe not!  But it was interesting!!