Make new friends and do new things.

So truffles are probly the best thing since sliced bread.

When I say truffle im not talking about a ball of chocolate that you can get from the candy shoppe for a dollar im talking about a mushroom that looks like a clump of dirt, smells like nothing eles, and cost a un-believable amount of cash. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle_(fungus)
Every year Alba, Italy has a truffle fest and everyweekend a new town has a fixed menu with all sorts of truffle dishes, I was luckey enough to be apart of it.

For lunch we went to a local reasturaunt with all of the other student and had "tagalatelle e truffio" wich was fresh tagatelle in a butter sauce with fresh white truffle shaved on top. I would describe the dish here too but it was literally to good for words. We then left headed back to college to rest before our dinner reservation at 8.

When we went to the bar for the dinner we were greated by our barkeep from the previous night and lead down stairs where the chef sat us. We were the only people in the entire place that night, guess it pays off to make new friends. We were given the truffio menu and instantly attracted to the risotto e truffio, we were warned it would take at leat 18 mins. wich just ment it was made from scratch. We ordered a bottle of sparkling white wine (were getting pretty good at ordering wines now) wich went quite well with the dish. When the bread and amuse was finished our dish came out as a basic looking risotto so we instantly asumed the truffio was in the risotto itself. The waiter then came out with three white truffles the sized of your fist and shaved them fresh onto the plate...once again indescribably good.

We finished the night by going upstairs and once again spending quality time with our favourite barkeep. Off too sleep now, first day of school in 9 hours.

-R

p.s. successfully ordered gelato in italian for a group of us, the language is not that hard to pick up :]