Truffle Quotes

“Would you like some sacred chocolate?' a girl asked, appearing suddenly at Lara's side. 'They've very special chocolates,' she said, pushing a plate of the goods in Lara's direction. 'They're raw and sweetened with Stevia.'
Stevia, huh? Lara grabbed a chocolate truffle and popped it into her mouth, winking at the girl. She hoped the 'stevia' would kick in soon, because frankly, it looked like these women were having a better time than she'd had in ages.”

— Lola Salt

“She's just nervous, Paddy. Don't worry, hon," saidSharon , her lips pulled into a generous smile. Her eyes sparkled with warmth and sincerity. "I'm used to these neck nibblers."
"No offense,Sharon . But I'd rather have the chocolate," I said.
She laughed and slapped her thigh. "Hell's bells, Patrick! She's the reason you've had me eating these Godiva truffles all day?"
I looked at Patrick. "You're mean." His black brows formed question marks. Then his lips curled into a smile. "No, not just mean. Cruel."
"I had her eat truffles for you," he said.
"Are you insane? How is her eating my chocolate in any way helpful?"
Sharon chortled. "You might not be able to eat the truffle, sweetie, but you'll taste it. Prob'ly be the best chocolate you ever eat, too."
I looked at Sharon , then at Patrick. "Are you telling me that she's gonna taste like chocolate?"
"Yes.”

— Michele Bardsley

“She'd faced some hard knocks in life - one really hard one five years ago - and had managed to cultivate a protective shell for herself. But like a Godiva truffle, she was only hard in a thin outer layer. Her insides were still as tender as ever.”

— Becky Wade

“A dark-chocolate truffle melts in my mouth, and I forget about everything else ... even the fact that I'm on a diet.”

— Barbara Brooke

“The onion is the truffle of the poor.”

— Robert J. Courtine

“When you bite into a chocolate truffle, you don't want to find oat bran.”

— Laura Kalpakian

“His popcorn exploded with truffle oil and shaved Parmesan, or chopped pretzels and chewy flecks of caramel. Today's batch smelled like curry and toasted almonds.”

— Lauren Kate

“Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Perhaps the single most enjoyable part of my researches, which covered a period of about four years, was meeting the artists themselves, the people who provide the luxuries. All of them, from tailors and boot makers to truffle hunters and champagne blenders, were happy in their work, generous with their time, and fascinating about their particular skills. To listen to a knowledgeable enthusiast, whether he's talking about a Panama hat or the delicate business of poaching foie gras in Sauternes, is a revelation, and I often came away wondering why the price wasn't higher for the talent and patience involved.”

— Peter Mayle

“Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.”

— Jodi Picoult

“It's an open horizon before us, as far as the eye can see: no angst and no games, just mutual delight. So simple, but so rich. Like chocolate. Not a gold-dusted truffle or a foofy pastry tower teetering on a crystal platter, but a plain, honest bar of the best chocolate in the world.”

— Laini Taylor

“He loved Clara. I miss a lot in life," said Gilbert. "But I have a nose for love." "Like a truffle pig," said Beauvoir, then regretted it when he saw the asshole saint's reaction. Then, unexpectedly, Gilbert smiled. "Exactly. I can smell it. Love has an aroma all its own, you know." Beauvoir looked at Gilbert, amazed by what he'd just heard. Maybe, he thought, this man was- "Smells like compost," said Gilbert. -an asshole after all.”

— Louise Penny

“I enjoyed retirement the right way ... linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.”

— Craig Kilborn

“I love hot edamame with truffle sauce.”

— Cory Hardrict

“I tend to pack light but still keep a large bag because I love to shop. For each destination I travel to, I like to buy something that the country or city is known for such as olive oil, truffle, jewelry, etc. I also like to buy perfumes because the smell brings me back to the memory of my travels.”

— Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

“When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.”

— Gigi Hadid

“My favorite splurge would be gluten-free pizza. Or I'm a total truffle addict so truffle mac and cheese.”

— Patti Stanger

“When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!”

— Bryan Cranston

“A steak is a steak, so I tried to experiment with different side dishes, such as truffle croquettes, and unusual condiments, but I learned that people don't want you to change the steakhouse.”

— Jean-Georges Vongerichten

“Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.”

— Kate Christensen

“Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary!”

— Marcus Samuelsson

“The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.”

— Leon M. Lederman

“The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas ...”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.”

— Bill Buford

“All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.”

— Sybille Bedford

“In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade.”

— Thomas Keller

“A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments.”

— Charlie Munger