L’omelette aux truffes de madame berthier

It seems that every French person knows how to make the perfect omelette, whether the runny kind favoured by some people nowadays, or the solid type such as the cake-like auvergnat Omelette Brayaude (see my earlier book). Not many, however, can expect successfully to serve 130 omelettes at one sitting as did Madame Berthier, the former proprietress of the Lion d’Or at Lalbenque in the Lot.

Lalbenque is the epicentre of truffle production and sales in the Sout