Giuseppe Santovito Ermanno Scaglione
Truffle hunting in Langhe and Roero
Ermanno Scaglione was born in 1970. He has hunted truffles since his youth in the area of Bra. He is a member of Truffle Hunters Association.
He describes his experience and explains the importance of locations for the hunt.
The interview was conducted by Jacqueline Cavazza, Valeria Dogliotti and Odile Pécoud for an ethnobotanic research directed by prof. Andrea Pieroni at University of Gastronomic Sciences
Video table of contents
- Names
- With the moon the dog smells
- Dogs in the night
- The best places
- Digging without spoiling the roots
- The truffle with cold weather
- Preserving truffles
- The places for truffles
- The
- The moon
- A logbook
- A tree that...
- You need a dog for the hunt to respect nature
- Illness for trees and truffles
- The dog
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Pocapaglia
District: CN
Altitude: 381m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocapaglia
Ermanno Scaglione
Year: 1970
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Percivalle
Video by: Jacqueline Cavazza, Valerio Dogliotti, Odile Pécout
Created: 10-06-2011
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.
