Who says truffles are just for gourmet dishes? You can put slices of truffle over fondue, shavings of truffle over rice dishes, or sprinkles of truffle into wild mushroom sauce. You can even grate truffles and add them to scrambled eggs. Simple as that! Turn your dishes from ordinary to extraordinary by cooking with truffles. This rice has definitely absorbed parts of the flavour and aroma of the fungi and could be used for cooking. Given this condition, they are often described as vegetable meat. Truffles contain high protein content. They are made up 73% water, and several substances and minerals like calcium, potassium and magnesium. An example would be a truffle company in North Carolina, the Garland s Gourmet Mushrooms and Truffles who have been in the truffle business since 1990s. Although, most truffles could be found in the wild, history showed that they were cultivated during 1800s in France. However, the First World War caused serious damage on the truffle cultivation. Italian white truffles go great with pasta, eggs, butter, cream, chicken, walnuts, risotto and mildly bitter greens. This kind of ruffle is best when shaved raw and uncooked. They could be add at the last minute, so that the heat from cooking would not destroy the aroma of the fungi. Black French truffles are compatible with dark meat poultry like ducks and venison, red meet and red wine sauces. This type is considered as winter black truffle which is usually cultivated and harvested in China. This can be considered as the most widely-distributed truffle type because it grows bountifully in most areas in China. Because these are widely available, Chinese truffles are the ones that are being exported very often to the West areas and are considered an inferior-quality substitute for black truffles. That way, you ensure that the strength of their taste remains when you add them to your favorite truffle recipe. Store your truffles for a maximum period of three days in the refrigerator. When storing your truffles, wrap them individually in paper towel and place them in a sealed jar to ensure that its odor won t affect other foods in the fridge.