The best friend of many delicious dishes, truffle needs no introduction: you can tell the story of its birth, which is essentially a love story; you can invent poetry, inspired bu the onepresent in its taste and scent, and you can finally get into technical details. This book tells a story, presents poetry and theorizes on this undisputed king of the table.

Natale Romagnolo was born in 1948 in Costigliole d'Asti, where he spent the years of his youth. After moving to a big city, he worked for a long time in marketing research. the idea of this first book -through which he got to understand himself better, going back trough his roots, his personal history and experiences- came in a moment of inner reflection, when he was taking stock of his life. He does not think of himself as a writer, but as a storyteller, of stories he lived and, sometimes, dreamed...