Truffles Grow Amongst My Roots

My mother sent me this article, which had made its way onto the NYTimes.com most emailed list, about the growing of black truffles in a small town in the corner of East Tennessee. It is, in fact, Chuckey, a small town in which my grandfather, Judd Allen Bolinger, was born and raised.

From the Times: "Chuckey is not the sort of place one expects to find the holy grail of the food loving world. But on the edge of town, perched on a south-facing slope overlooking the birthplace of Davy Crockett, an orchard of 350 hazelnut trees has begun to sprout Périgord truffles, the fragrant black fungi that can send epicures, as well as routing pigs and dogs, into fits of frenzied greed."