Giuseppe Santovito Mario Bruno
The experience of a truffle hunter
Mario Bruno, born in 1949, is a truffle hunter of Canale.
In the interview he highlights the number of truffle hunter is decreasing and this goes hand in hand with decreasing number of truffles that grow in the countryside.
Bruno tells he learned this activity from his neighbor, against the resistance of his parents. After decades I continues this activity this experience makes him say that there is no direct correlation between truffle growth and the lunar phases and that the taste of a truffle little changes compared to where it is collected.
Video table of contents
- When I started
- The best period
- Lunar phases
- Proverbs
- Where it grows
- During the night
- Same trees, less truffles
- To my nephew
- Only few remain
- Only in the great occasion
- All the dogs can learn
- Dog poisoning
- Competition among truffle hunters
- Land propriety
- The smell
- Truffle are
- Not all the truffle are the same
- A song
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Canale
District: CN
Altitude: 194m s.l.m.
Bruno Mario
Date of birth: 02-01-1949
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Percivalle, Michele Fontefrancesco
Video by: Remo Schellino
Created: 02-01-2015
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.
