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Périgord Truffles: Made in New Zealand

by Jennifer Yee
Divine magazine
Issue 23, July/Sept 2000
Eat your heart out Tassie, your Kiwi cousins have been commercially viable since 1997. The tally for 2000, including two more newly producing truffières, one in Canterbury, and the other also on the East Coast of the North Island, is a total of 65 truffières located throughout New Zealand. The truffle plantations are located. . . [more]

Truffle on the Menu

by Jennifer Yee
Divine magazine
Issue 23, July/Sept 2000
David Griffiths, executive chef at Vinnies in Herne Bay, Auckland, was responsible for the entrée course served to 420 guests at the APEC Leaders dinner at the Auckland Town Hall last year. David's mission was to showcase. . . [more]