Prepare your senses for the third annual BC Truffle Festival on Saturday, February 9th from 1:30pm to 4pm out at UBC.
Plan a day out at the UBC Farm for the main event, where you’ll get a taste and noses full of a variety of native BC truffles and locally cultivated Mediterranean types, not to mention an earful of knowledge from a panel of truffle experts. Topics on the table include cultivation basics, kitchen tips and how to hunt down truffles with a trained canine companion. The afternoon will culminate with a demonstration, led by experts Dexter the Puggle and Macchi, a Lagotto Romagnolo, who will be showcasing their talents alongside their human counterparts.
For those who are especially interested in the latter, there’s a three-hour-long Truffle Foray the following day (Sunday) that you won’t want to miss. Participants in the Foray will have the exceptional opportunity to join in on a real deal truffle harvest at the South Langley orchard that’s currently the sole producer of Bianchetto truffles in Canada. The experience is a bit of a splurge ($100 per person, including some tasty truffle hors-d’oeuvres) but well worth it when you add up the exclusivity factor plus the quality time spent with Dexter and Macchi.
Tickets to the Truffle Festival’s main event at UBC are $50 each and can be purchased from the event page. More adventurous truffle enthusiasts can sniff out your tickets to this year’s secret location Truffle Foray over here.
Oh wow. Sounds mouth-watering