Giuseppe Santovito Giancarlo Boasso
A Langa truffle hunter
Giancarlo Boasso, born in 1965, lives in Sinio. He is a descendant of a family of truffle hunters .
In the interview he talks about his experience and tells episodes of his life as an hunter and the owner of a large family-run farm where he hosts people from all around the world
The interview was conducted by Jacqueline Cavazza, Valeria Dogliotti and Odile Pécoud as part of an ethnobiological research coordinated by prof. Andrea Pieroni at the University of Gastronomic Sciences.
Video table of contents
- The names of white and black truffles
- The time of the hunt
- The reasons of the night
- Young and old dogs
- Fresh and dry places
- Truffle and trees
- Moons
- Truffle and pigs
- Not breed but ability
- Rain in spring, and a dry summer
- inheriting the passion
- Digging and taking
- Free pickup truffle grounds
- Best preservation
- Old preservation techniques
- Serving white truffles
- Serving black truffles
- White truffle and eros
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Sinio
District: CN
Altitude: 357m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinio
Giancarlo Boasso
Year: 1946
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Percivalle
Video by: Jacqueline Cavazza, Valerio Dogliotti, Odile Pécout
Created: 07-06-2011
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.
