Giuseppe Santovito Ezio Costa
The knowledge of a truffle hunter
Ezio Costa was born in Bossolasco in 1947. He is a truffle hunter who began his experience learning from his father in the 1960s, when he was fourteen.
The interview describes the main information a truffle hunter must know: how to use and train a dog and how to preserve a white truffle. Ezio describes the experience of the hunt, in the night and presents the main proverbs and traditional knowledge linked to truffle hunting and that frame the period of the hunt from November to January.
Video table of contents
- Presentation
- Passion and gains
- Alone
- Choosing a dog
- Without a dog
- The use of the pig
- Not a job, a passion
- Women and truffle hunting
- Vivalda, the father in law
- Trees
- Thunder
- Legends
- The logbook
- The truffle of the year
- The price
- A Mushroom
- Preservation
- As a medicine
- Aphrodisiac?
- The moon and Saint Martin
- Training the dog
- Proverbs
- The period of the hunt
- Poisoning the other's dogs
- The fly
- Profume and smell
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Monchiero
District: CN
Altitude: 235m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monchiero
Ezio Costa
Date of birth: 02-19-1941
City: Bossolasco (CN)
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Percivalle, Michele Fontefrancesco
Video by: Remo Schellino
Created: 11-09-2014
Questo video fa parte del seguente archivio
The white truffle
The white truffle
The archive investigates white truffles, known for their taste and frivolous aspects, but not for their cultural characteristics which plasmed generations of truffle hunters. The research presents a substrate of knowledge documented through dozens of interviews: historical and anthropological elements, rituals and myths on this prized fungus, still considered nowadays a nocturnal mystery. The project was promoted by the University of Gastronomic Sciences, l’Athe National Association “Città del Tartufo”, the national centre for truffle research and the Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo Foundation.
