Black Truffle Pizza

The truffle is an ideal accompaniment for any pizza. We shave them raw over tomatoes, cheese, sausage, clams, and more. The truffles need to be copious, but an ounce goes a long way. A true companion for the truffles are mushrooms. Many folks confuse mushrooms and truffles; they are both fungi, but truffles are part of the ecology of trees and mushrooms are far more independent, they can exist on rotting logs, damp peat soil, sand, and so on. The close proximity of their mutual growth envir