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		<title>Northwest Truffle News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in December, I mentioned the upcoming Oregon Truffle Festival in Eugene, which runs from January 29th to 31st. Among many dinners, workshops and tastings, the festival also offers a two-day seminar on truffle dog training. Yesterday, the Oregonian published an article on the subject of truffle hunting dogs. Although pigs are the traditional truffle hunters, the story says dogs are now more popular.  They can sniff out ripe truffles while leaving immature ones undisturbed to grow more flavorfully pungent and pickable. The article says: &#8220;. . . dogs quickly root out deeper, bigger specimens, often in brushy areas people avoid. Such targeted foraging protects the tree roots, threadlike mycelium (the cells that spawn truffles) and forest loam, which indiscriminate raking destroys, says the Corvallis-based North American Truffling Society. France and Italy now largely rely on dogs. Heftier hogs were hard to transport; dogs hop in the back seat of a car. Dogs also are less prone to gobble up the unearthed morsels.&#8221; Oregon truffles are less sought after than European truffles, some think, because Oregon truffles are often dug up too young and therefore with less flavor and aroma. If more people train dogs to pinpoint only mature specimens, the [...]]]></description>
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