'You're booking an experience'. Truffle hunting, pasta making, and an enchanting base proved just the right ingredients for a family escape found. It was a misty Thursday morning, with the low Tuscan hills' muted tones in the distance, when we set out with a six-year-old Lagotto Romagnolo in pursuit of something my children both love and hate. Truffles - the fungus, not the chocolates-are catnip in my house when they come in the form of musky oil on crisps (.£3.95 at our local deli). On pasta, they're less well-received. But Antonia (six) and Henry (four) were suitably impressed with the set-up: a hipster and a farmer in pursuit of a high-value product; if there was a scent of earthy delights, there was also more than a whiff of a Famous Five mission.
Full article published in The Telegraph, January 2019
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