This reportage was published in the RFood insert of Repubblica, issue n☄6 of 8 November 2018. This variety only grows in Piedmont and is only harvested in the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato areas from 21 September to 31 January. The White Truffle of Alba is considered the most precious truffle in the world. Cantering on Anderson's beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011. Without noise, the dog is quieter and its nose is only directed towards the search". Laurie Anderson embarks on a cinematic journey through love, death and language. It is the dogs that smell the truffle, that call the hunter back and start digging. The truffle is a hypogeous fungus: even when it is ripe, it remains underground, at a depth of up to thirty or forty centimeters. It’s thanks to them if the search is successful. Besides Ezio and his son Filippo, there are Dora and Lola, two crossbreed dogs from German Bracco breed and English Pointer breed. His son Filippo, born in 1976, during the day is an architect with a studio in Alba: "I've been accompanying my father since I was a child. He has been repeating the ritual of the search since he was 14 years old. Ezio Costa, born in 1947, is one of the 4,000 truffle hunters of Piedmont. The night is illuminated by the last plenilunio of October. These are the ingredients of the story that has a protagonist: the white truffle of Alba. Two hunters, two dogs and the woods on a full moon night. Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, Ezio and his son Filippo Costa go for a night-time hunt of the rare and expensive Alba white truffle, which has so far resisted all the efforts of modern science for its cultivation.
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