Farms: Oregon White Truffle Hunting With Jack Czarnecki
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To Jack Czarnecki, his lifelong fascination with wild mushrooms can be distilled down to one determinant factor: family genetics. More specifically, his father, Joe Czarnecki, who of European Polish descent, created quite a stir in his day with his cutting-edge restaurant called 'Joe's' in Reading, Pennsylvania. In the 1950's Joe Czarnecki was among the first chef's to use wild mushrooms, drawing culinary notables from afar, including Craig Clayborn, James Beard, and Julia Child who back then wanted "to find out about this guy". As a child Jack Czarnecki would go on mushroom hunts with his father, but it wasn't until he and his wife Heidi, took over Joe's in 1974 that he really got hooked on foraging for wild mushrooms, and putting them on his restaurant menu. Although the truffle is classified as a mushroom, it is almost wholly distinct from any other mushroom. In 1996 Joe's closed after 80 years of existence, and Jack and Heidi relocated to Oregon, and started The Joe Palmer Restaurant in the small town of Dayton, near Portland. It was here that Jack turned his attention to truffles, in part, because Oregon truffles at the time had been given the wrongful reputation of being somehow inferior to their European counterparts. Early on, Jack found both the Oregon White and Oregon Black Truffle to be quite the opposite, true culinary treasures. As Jack Czarnecki explains in the video, one of the biggest challenges is learning how to make natural truffle oil; oil that faithfully reflects all the complexities and subtleties of the gasses inside a ripening truffle. Although he has made tremendous strides over the four years he has been producing his different truffle oils, he still feels he has more to learn about making truffle oils. Jack Czarnecki's deep love of wild mushrooms, his training as a Chef, as a microbiologist, and his natural affinity toward philosophical inquiry— of seeking to grasp the large out of that which may be quite small— continues to fuel his drive to commercially produce a better truffle oil. As though fulfilling an unwritten destiny, Jack's son Chris now runs The Joel Palmer House restaurant, and his other son Stefan is involved in the restaurant, and helping his dad with their truffle oil business. In the Czarnecki family, the apple seems to fall not far from the tree. Food Farmer Earth - a journey of wide discovery about our food http://www.youtube.com/ffe Subscribe to Food Farmer Earth-receive the latest videos http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=foodfarmerearth Visit Cooking Up a Story for more stories, recipes, photos, and complete written posts http://cookingupastory.com Follow us: Google+ https://plus.google.com/+foodfarmerearth/posts twitter http://twitter.com/cookingupastory Facebook http://www.facebook.com/cookingupastory Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/foodfarmerearth/ Website RSS Feed http://cookingupastory.com/feed Cooking Up a Story channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/cookingupastory
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lay ko mjnh co
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Raking is frowned upon by the mycological community.
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I ain't gonna knock it.... but, for me there are just some things I ain't gonna try. I do like regular mushrooms on occasion.... just not into making a habit of it. lol
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can you guys please give me the address I'm in Oregon😊
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for a second i thought u were looking for chocolate in the forest...
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wait was that a bigfoot? did you see that?
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What's truffle oil used for?
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Wow, im in California. Now thinking of going up to Oregon to hunt for truffles. It seems so exciting. Like hunting for treasures.
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So basically truffles are poops?
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Hi thankyou for the video was interesting.I didn't know anything about truffles until today when I dug up a good size white truffle by accident.I had to look up how to store it.Now I am hooked! I found out where the best places to look please can you possibly tell me any other interesting signs I could look out for in my search for truffles?Also its may and I have read the best time for the black truffle is between November to march and the white September to early January.Does this mean now its may that the truffle is no good?Thankyou sharon
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magic truffles
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Get a dog! dogs are more accurate on finding truffles they can smell if the truffle is perfect enough for harvest
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My white truffles are size of a soft balls, It's the squirrels that spread them around and eat on them like nuts, Squirrels are the best planters of all animals even they eat some fruit every now a then for all there hard work they done...big deal let em live and plant more.. I don't sell them i eat em YUM ~ Thank you Squirrels
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get a dog and train it to find it
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Those damn squirrels! : )
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we have white truffles here in the phils... anyone interested pls email me...
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Why aren't you carrying the truffles in a mesh bag so you can spread the spores?
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Why aren't you carrying the truffles in a mesh bag so you can spread the spores?
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i really want to kno the story behind his huge ring
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How do Oregon truffles compare to truffles from France and Italy?