You can also fill the jar with rice and cook it once eaten the truffle. The glass jar arrived overnight from North Carolina, 650 miles to the east. Every year, autumn after autumn, we now have seen the streets of daily stuffed with all sorts of people, coming here, in our little city of Alba, with that basic enthusiasm that only one thing as precious as truffles may give. Sniffing the truffles required quite just a few tries for me just to start to really feel the variations and as my guide defined truffles are at their finest when just taken out of the earth.