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  • The Tasting Table features Yuzu Juice in its article “Yuzu Wisely.” More from Tasting Table here…
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  • Bay Area Bites writes on Yakami Orchard’s Yuzu Juice, Sudachi Juice, Kabosu Juice, and Yuzu Kosho on blog.
  • Flavorista features Yakami Orchard’s Sudachi Zest. Read the whole article at Flavorista…
  • Yakami Orchard’s products appear at CHEERS beverage conference in Miami, FL. Adam Seger, expert mixologist, uses Yakami Orchard’s juices with Ciroc Vodka.

From Down Under, Black Gold
New York Times July 11, 2007

Some 10 years ago, about 13,000 hazelnut trees inoculated with Périgord black truffle spores were planted by the Wine and Truffle Company near Manjimup, south of Perth, in western Australia. In the last couple of years, the plantation has been tripled in size to about 250 acres, with oak trees planted, too.

Dogs that had been trained to detect cocaine and explosives were given a glamorous new career; last year they sniffed out more than 200 pounds of black truffles. This year the harvest has quadrupled, exports have started, and restaurants in the United States, including the French Laundry in Yountville, Calif., and Lever House in New York, are using the truffles.

Because Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere and the seasons are reversed, black truffles in July are something of a surprise.

“You have to rethink your summer menu to use black truffles because you usually associate them with winter,” said Dan Silverman, below, the chef at Lever House. Since worldwide production of fine black truffles has dropped sharply in the last 10 years, Australia’s news is welcome for devotees of Tuber melanosporum.

The truffles, which are intensely aromatic, inky black and sometimes the size of tennis balls, are in season from June to September. Truffle hunts are open to the public ($55 Australian, with wine, from wineandtruffle.com.au. Balducci’s sells the truffles by special order for $1,495 a pound; the smallest order is a quarter pound, at $373.75. Orders may be placed at any Balducci’s store.

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