Truffes et Muscadines

The chocolate truffle is a delicate French bonbon made by coating a ball of creamy ganache in a thin layer of cocoa powder. The truffle was named for its uncanny resemblance to the much-sought-after and highly prized culinary fungus, the tuber melanosporum, or black truffle. The chocolate truffle is said to have been created by one of the fathers of haute cuisine, the great chef Auguste Escoffier, in the early 1920s. The story goes that an apprentice of Escoffier’s was preparing a pastry cr