You're Australian, right? It's black truffle season right now down there.

Back when I was living in Singapore, I worked for a food distributor and we used to import and sell T. melanosporum from Manjimup Valley, Tasmania and other places. We were selling to people like Luke Mangan (well, his surrogates in SGP) and Ryan Clift (who is a Brit, not Australian, but still for me, the n.1 chef down there). Fun times!

After that, back in Europe I tried to replicate the trade, but I utterly failed to convince people over here that truffles can also be eaten during the summer. Absolutely everybody rejected the idea -- clearly dishonestly, because summer or not, they bloody well use that disgusting synthetic "truffle oil" to dose absolutely everything these days...