A scented Stone

The wildest Umbria hides a treasure that is neither cultivated nor reproduced, but needs luck to be found. Her majesty the #Truffle.

For more than thirty centuries the "scented stone" has delighted the sense of smell and the palates of nobles and less noble who have had the good fortune to get to know it.

One of these admirers was the Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni who, in the years of his youth spent in Spoleto, enjoyed the generous hospitality of Baron Antonio Ancajani, to whom he dedicated the comedy Gli Innamorati years later.

The Baron speaks of Spoleto truffles as "the most fragrant and tastiest of other countries" even if he criticized the conditions they were subjected to during transport due to the large demand that came from the noble kitchens of Florence and Pesaro.

Goldoni remained a lover of the particular ingredient throughout his life, so much that he even made the characters of his plays talk about it, even if he wanted to specify the very high quality of the Spoleto variant, compared to other less tasty and fragrant origins.

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