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Truffles are underground mushrooms-stonelike, spore-bearing fruit of fungi that live on tree roots. The insects and small animals which distribute truffle spores are attracted by the powerful, penetrating odor. The odor also interests dogs, hogs, goats and gourmets. The truffle has been in high fashion as an accent for royal feasts since the time of Pliny...
Practice Cheese. Truffle dogs need not be imported. Training them is not difficult. Since genuine truffles are expensive ($12 a pound, canned), the trainer may use cheese. He takes bits of ripe, strong Gorgonzola, wraps them in cloth and buries them in the earth. When the odor has seeped through the soil, he leads his dog within range. After many tries, the dog gets the idea and smells out the Gorgonzola. When he digs up the bait, the trainer pats him and feeds him a rewarding biscuit...
...carriage trade, the manure manufactory also puts up "Bovotto," which is hopefully described as "the new plant cosmetic." The finished product has no smell, presumably because the odor has all been waited two and a half miles to Princeton...
...TIME was much too highhanded. On second sniff, Poet Rimbaud gives off a perverse, poetic and powerfully significant odor...
...group in Philadelphia to which I belonged, and which went by a title I consider a triumph of anticlimax - La Societe Gastronomique de Bryn Mawr ..." French Hunter's Dinner. "Don't be afraid of the lard. In the South of France lard is used to absorb the odor of flowers for perfume, and in this dinner it is used for the purpose of absorbing the odor of onions, mushrooms and celery with wonderful effect. Without the full half pound of lard the dinner is no good." Chess Cakes. "These are tasty morsels of early Americana, the recipe inherited...