Giuseppe Santovito Ernesto Cuniberti
The experience of a truffle hunter
Ernesto Cuniberti, born in 1928, belongs to a family of truffle hunters. In this interview he tells his long experience of truffle hunter in the territory of the Langa.
The first part of the interview focuses on the relationship between hunter and dog. In the second part, Cuniberti focuses on some aspects related to the truffle and its collection.
Video table of contents
- The heir of a truffle hunter family
- Dog choice
- Dog training
- Passion
- Where truffles grow
- The best truffle
- Always at night, by foot
- Not really "always in the same place"
- Never a note taken
- Preservation
- Moon phases
- Proverb
- Poisoning dogs
- With the other truffle hunters
- Aphrodisiac
- A great season
- In the deep
- Always alone
- Some places I revealed
- With any weather
- A place near the graveyard
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Ceva
District: CN
Altitude: 386m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceva
Ernesto Cuniberti
Date of birth: 11-29-1928
Languages: Dialetto piemontese
Document by: Gianpaolo Fassino, Luca Percivalle, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Video by: Remo Schellino
Created: 22-09-2014
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.
