Giuseppe Santovito Dario Pastrone
Search and Market in Asti province
Dario Pastrone, born in 1949, was interviewed in 2015.
His family is originally from Chiusano d'Asti, and already his grandfather was a truffle hunet. A document from 1716 shows that his grand-grand-grandfather was already a truffle hunter.
Pastrone addresses all the major aspects of popular knowledge related to the collection of truffles, with particular reference to the hills of Asti. Pastrone also discusses the history of truffle trade in Asti.
Video table of contents
- Since 1716
- Thunders and truffles
- The truffle hunter and the night
- The relationship with the dog
- No pig in Piedmont
- Women and truffle
- Preservation
- The price depends on Asti market
- “Cupa” of Monchiero
- The market in Asti
- Learning from the father
- Following the fly
- Truffle ripening
- Bound to the place where I was born
- Witches at night
- Always in the same place
- Lunar phases
- Aphrodisiac
- The time of collection
- Castrated dogs and the search with the stick
- Unripe truffle
- The change of season
- Proverbs
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Chiusano d'Asti
District: AT
Altitude: 261m s.l.m.
Dario Pastrone
Date of birth: 08-02-1949
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Gianpaolo Fassino, Luca Percivalle, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Video by: Remo Schellino
Created: 10-01-2015
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.
