Giuseppe Santovito Mario Spinardi
A life hunting truffles
Mario Spinardi, born in 1932, is a truffle hunter of Dogliani. He tells the practice of picking truffles is a family activity, practiced by his daughter as well as his father.
Spinardi started very young to pick truffles, when he was 6 years old.
The main transformation he witnessed are the floods and the spread of fallow fields.
He remembers many folk beliefs connected with the truffle and its collection.
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Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Dogliani
District: CN
Locality: Spinardi
Altitude: 295m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogliani
Mario Spinardi
Date of birth: 10-25-1932
Languages: Piemontese
Document by: Gianpaolo Fassino, Luca Percivalle, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Video by: Remo Schellino
Created: 07-09-2014
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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.
