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Welcome to the News Room/Media Kit Area, where we provide easy, up-to-the-minute access to breaking news and information for journalists, reporters, and anyone interested in the Oregon Truffle Festival.  You'll find links to the right that will take you to additional Oregon Truffle Festival information.

2012 Media

Truffle Mania
Oregon Business - April 2012
They look unappetizing. Truffles, the underground cousins to mushrooms, are knobby and lumpish, looking like a cross between a small potato and a battered old golf ball.
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New Ways To Find – And Grow – Truffles
Indiana Public Media -  February 18, 2012
Hunting for truffles can be a lucrative business as they commonly sell for $1000 per pound, but finding them is a trick — their growth is considered a rare natural phenomenon found primarily in France and Italy, and you generally need to employ the skills of a pig to find them.
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Truffle Nirvana
Fat of the Land Blog - February 2, 2012
The woods were alive with the sounds of trufflers. Dozens of humans and canines barked and yipped and hollered their triumphs and failures through a gloomy grove of 25-year-old Douglas-firs. They ran to and fro, scratching in the dirt with paws and garden cultivators.
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The Magnificent Oregon Truffle Festival
Polyvoracious.com - February 3, 2012
Ahhh, truffles. King of all fungi. One of the most expensive foods in the world. Redolent of forest, musk, compost and aged cheese, they are uniquely funky and unlikely to win any beauty contest based on appearance alone. But…the brain floods with dopamine as soon as you catch the unmistakable whiff of a ripe truffle nugget. Pupils dilate and thoughts turn impure. Salivary glands kick in as your mouth awaits connection with that distinct scent. Truffles are transformative, bordering on magical.
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Ignite passion with truffles and wine
The Daily Herald.com - February 9, 2012
Love comes in many flavors. The drugstore greeting card “sweets for the sweet,” with a sugary heart stamped “I luv u,” pairs perfectly with White Zin. But if your love is lusty, earthy and exotic, skip the candy and blend truffles into your lover's feast. There's nothing prefab about a truffle.
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Truffles: No Mere Trifle Foraging for the famed fungi in Oregon and beyond
Oregon Wine Press - February 2012
When recently invited to my first truffle hunt, dog and all, I must admit I was pretty excited … I had foraged for chanterelles, matsutakes and morels in the Southwestern Oregon woods with only mixed success.
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2012 Press Releases

The New Idaho Tuber : First White Truffle Produced in Idaho
February 12, 2012
EUGENE, Ore. -On February 12, 2012, the first North American cultivated Bianchetto truffle (aka tuber borchii, Italian spring white truffle or Tuscany white truffle) was harvested in a truffle orchard near Boise, Idaho.
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Acclaimed Chefs Will Prepare the Grand Truffle Dinner at the Seventh Annual Oregon Truffle Festival
October 27, 2011
EUGENE, Ore. - The Oregon Truffle Festival announces that four of the finest nationally and internationally recognized chefs will join host chef Stephanie Pearl Kimmel of Marché Restaurant to prepare the five-course meal served at the annual Grand Truffle Dinner, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, at the Eugene Hilton & Conference Center, located at 66 E. Sixth Ave., Eugene.
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Seventh Annual Oregon Truffle Festival Seeks New Culinary Talents With Inspired Recipes
September 29, 2011
EUGENE, Ore. - Organizers of the upcoming Oregon Truffle Festival are calling on amateur chefs to submit original recipes featuring the native Oregon white and/or Oregon black truffles for the One Big Truffle Recipe Contest, a competition inspired by the earthy delicacy. A panel of acclaimed chefs will choose finalists whose recipes will be featured at the Oregon Truffle Festival, January 27-29, 2012, in Eugene, Ore. Read full news release -->>

Seventh Annual Oregon Truffle Festival to Entice Truffle Enthusiasts With the Unique Flavors of a Northwest Delicacy
September 1, 2011
EUGENE, Ore. - Food lovers are invited to celebrate the glory of a Pacific Northwest delicacy and re-discover American cuisine and culture at the seventh annual Oregon Truffle Festival, Jan. 27 through Jan. 29, 2012, in Eugene. Registration opens today, Sept. 1, 2011. Read full news release -->>

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2011 Media/News Releases

Oregon Truffle Festival Named One of Top 10 Food Festivals in the Country by Livability.com!
Livability.com
A truffle adds a little elegance to any meal, and the Oregon Truffle Festival certainly puts a fancy spin on your average food festival.
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Grand Moments at the Oregon Truffle Festival
Travel Oregon.com - April 11, 2011
A couple months ago, I was lucky enough to feast on Oregon truffles at the Oregon Truffle Festival in the Willamette Valley: the damp, ferny, mossy region in Oregon famous for sweet, rosy pinot noir and mysterious truffles!
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FORGET THE TENNIS BALL, TRAIN YOUR DOG TO FETCH SOMETHING YOU REALLY WANT
November 16, 2010
EUGENE, Ore. - Truffles, the earthy and expensive variety, do grow in America, but there have historically been few trained dogs or pigs to find them. For the second year in a row, the Oregon Truffle Festival presents the Truffle Dog Training Seminar, a unique event in North America teaching dogs and their owners how to find truffles in woodlands and truffle orchards across the continent. The seminar, and some of the dog-harvested truffles that result from the class, will be presented at the sixth annual Oregon Truffle Festival, to be held in Eugene, Jan. 28 through Jan. 30, 2011. Read full news release -->>

OREGON TRUFFLE FESTIVAL OPENS WITH "SLOW FOOD" EVENT AT JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART
October 25, 2010
EUGENE, Ore. - The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus will host "SLOW: The Taste of Authenticity," the opening act of the 2011 Oregon Truffle Festival the evening of January 28. A celebration of the slow food traditions of Italy and Oregon’s magnificent native truffles, the event promises to be an aesthetic feast for the senses as well as the palate. The multilayered program tells a story designed to connect the food we eat with the communities we live in. Read full news release -->>

AUTHENTIC ITALIAN TRUFFLES COME TO OREGON AT SIXTH ANNUAL OREGON TRUFFLE FESTIVAL
September 1, 2010
EUGENE, Ore. -- The rich and beautiful palette of Italian truffle culture will join with Oregon's budding truffle industry at the sixth annual Oregon Truffle Festival, to be held Jan. 28 through Jan. 30, 2011, in Eugene, Ore. Registration opens tomorrow, Sept. 1, 2010. The destination weekend festival is composed of five weekend and several stand-alone experience options, culminating in the Grand Truffle Dinner. Guests can enjoy lectures, cooking classes, winery luncheons, truffle forays with trained truffle dogs, truffle farm tours and, of course, truffle-infused fare. Tickets for all events may be purchased online. Read full news release -->>

2010 Media/Press Releases

OREGON TRUFFLE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES GRAND TRUFFLE DINNER MENU
January 14, 2010
EUGENE, Ore.--- Five of Oregon’s most celebrated chefs have collaborated to produce what has been described by Leslie Scott, Oregon Truffle Festival organizer, as an "artfully conceived" menu for the fifth anniversary Grand Truffle Dinner. Read full news release -->>

ACCLAIMED NORTHWEST CHEFS WILL PREPARE THE GRAND TRUFFLE DINNER AT THE FIFTH ANNUAL OREGON TRUFFLE FESTIVAL
December 5, 2009
EUGENE, Ore.--- The Oregon Truffle Festival announces that four of Portland’s most celebrated chefs will join hosts Rocky Maselli and Stephanie Pearl Kimmel of Marché in Eugene to prepare the five-course meal served at the fifth annual Grand Truffle Dinner, to be held Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010, in Eugene.
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2010 Articles

A la conquête de l'Amérique!
Pierre Sourzat
L'Oregon Truffle Festival ou festival de la truffe de l'Oregon a accueilli la semaine passée deux ambassadeurs de la cuisine du Lot et de la truffe noire du Quercy.
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Oregon Truffle Festival
Inside Food & Beverage.com - January 30, 2010
Digging up the dirt on where to find local truffles
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Maine food writer lured to France, now Eugene by truffles and Pinot
Medford Wine Examiner.com - January 24, 2010
Author Michael S. Sanders often writes about tradition and the long-held notion that when a community gathers to eat together, it shares more than local ingredients.
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Got Truffles? Oregon Does
Issuu.com - January 20, 2010
The West's Culinary Gold Rush . . . Seeking Nuggets of White and Black Fungi
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