Sublime

Truffles grow a few centimeters under the ground, on the roots of certain oak or hazelnut trees. During the season, from November until March, they can be tracked down by nose, providing you have sensitive enough equipment. The supreme truffle detector is the pig, who is born with a fondness for the taste, and whose sense of smell in this case is s

it is totally reasonable—righteous, even—to eat what you kill, whatever it may be. “I’ve tried tiger,” said Trush. “My whole family tried it. It’s quite unusual—slightly sweet, but I don’t care for it anymore—not since I saw a tiger eat a rotten cow in 2000. He ate the meat with worms and everything.”

The guide takes out a cutting board and starts slicing a garlicky summer sausage and opens a jar of pickled boar (they run in the hills nearby). He cuts up some sharp cheese with a knife that seems slightly too large. He lays it all out and it’s impressive. This is the picada, the traditional Argentinian board. It makes a lovely lunch. Then he star

a kind of water jiu-jitsu needed to wrestle with sharks.