Truffle is indeed a kind of miraculous food, and human beings can discover this fungus to become a delicacy, which also fully shows the wisdom of human beings.

There are many kinds of food that can be eaten by humans, especially in modern times, it is very rich in the sea that flies in the sky and runs on the ground, and it can be said that as long as you can think of it, it can basically be used by humans for consumption.

Almost all of these ingredients can be artificially bred, cultivated or stored, and it is precisely because of the mass production of ingredients through various methods that it is relatively easy for humans to obtain ingredients.

But there are only a few special rare foods that cannot be artificially cultivated, and even if the development of science and technology has reached the quantum age, there is no way to artificially cultivate a delicacy like truffles.

This shows the miracle of black truffle, a precious food, which has many beneficial effects on the human body, and some of the effects cannot even be explained by the corresponding substances that science cannot find from it.

Its vitality is particularly strong, and at the same time, it can be said that it is particularly weak.

It is said that in later generations, when the radioactive waste caused by a nuclear accident in a certain country leaked, all the creatures in a forest died one after another after being contaminated by nuclear radiation, but the truffle was the only fungus that survived tenaciously and continued to grow and reproduce.

But on the other hand, the truffle has very high requirements for the growth environment, where there is a little pollution in the environment, it is difficult to grow, only in the deep mountains and old forests with almost zero pollution, can find its traces.

With such a paradoxical and miraculous existence, even scientists have not figured out how truffles have such strange growth habits.

The earliest records of truffles date back to more than 3,000 years B.C., when the ancient Babylonians already knew that truffles were a good food for the human body.

It was not until the European Middle Ages that truffles were widely used as a condiment in human recipes, and it became a popular delicacy that began in the Renaissance period, less than 400 years before modern times.

Ancient China records of ground mushrooms also have a history of nearly 3,000 years, and it was not until modern times that they were named truffles. Our ancestors also had similarities with the ancient Europeans in eating truffles, not simply as a general food, but as a condiment.

This has to go back to the unique taste of truffles, the most common are black truffles and white truffles, the white truffle has a strong taste, while the black truffle has a relatively light taste and is more acceptable to people.

That taste is so special, according to the taste of Chinese, perhaps not many people can accept, even many European writers, can not use exact words to describe the unique taste of black truffles.

The nineteenth-century Englishman William Thackeray once described truffles: "At this moment I felt a smell coming over me, a fiery musky scent, spicy and drowsy, which soothed and intoxicated all my senses, but made my whole being restless and agitated." ”

How to put it, it is a compound fragrance of many flavors that is difficult to express in words, some of the aroma of dried fruits, and the smell of rotting plants in the forest; There is the sweet smell of honey and the pungent and spicy taste of garlic; There's the invigorating smell of musk, and the dizzying stench of bed bugs.

It's such a complex flavor that is not easy to explain, but you can imagine how difficult it is to describe the fusion of many peculiar flavors, but it is such a special taste that many gourmets are fascinated by it.

As for the reason why truffles have such a complex compound taste, there is currently no scientifically accepted rational explanation.

However, it is generally believed that truffles absorb the essence of pine roots, soil, and other plants and animals from their surroundings as nutrients for their own growth.

That's why it has so many flavor essences contained in its body, and the truffle itself transforms these essences into a variety of complex organic compounds, and at the same time, it can also be used to explain why it has so many kinds of nutrients.

In the eyes of Westerners, truffles are ranked among the top three delicacies in the world, along with caviar and foie gras, and in Western food, truffles are relatively simple to eat, white truffles are ground into powder and sprinkled into pasta, while black truffles are thinly sliced and fried with protein ingredients such as eggs.

In the East, truffles are mostly used as a seasoning in soups. This may be due to the difference in the way of using truffles between Eastern and Western people.

Westerners consider truffles to be a delicacy, while Easterners prefer to eat truffles as a medicine or condiment.

Many people wonder why truffles have such a special taste and are loved by so many people, especially in the minds of the vast majority of gourmets, it is a precious delicacy.

There are many reasons for this, the first of which is the unique nutrients of truffles, which have too many benefits for the human body, and are known as the treasure of longevity in various countries.

Secondly, the most well-known effect of truffles is its aphrodisiac effect, and it has a relatively strong aphrodisiac effect, many writers and artists have inspired themselves by eating truffles, creating world-famous literary and artistic works, and indirectly making the name of truffles also widely known.

Of course, as a fungus, the truffle itself does contain a certain amount of hallucinogens, and people will inexplicably feel very enjoyable after eating truffles, and this sensory stimulation is harmless to the human body, so it has also been sought after to a large extent.

Thirdly, truffles are too rare to be mass-produced by artificial breeding, so they can only be collected by "truffle hunters" with rich collection experience in inaccessible forests every year, and the scarcity of the number also determines its precious characteristics.

Finally, and what gourmets care about the most, is that although the taste of truffles is special, it has a very special and inexplicable characteristic, that is, truffles can bring out the freshest and most beautiful flavors of the ingredients that go with it.

In other words, an ordinary ingredient may taste just average, but when paired with truffles, it becomes extremely delicious, and when paired with truffles, it becomes a delicious delicacy that will last a lifetime.

It is this peculiar characteristic that makes truffles one of the top three delicacies in the world in the eyes of Westerners. Although truffles are not as well-known in the East as they are in the West, many people are attracted to their unique taste.