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Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. 
The gift of the gods or the devil's trap?
- In ancient times, both in Egypt and in Greece, truffle was already used in the kitchen and was highly appreciated. In Rome they gave that mushroom a divine origin: According to the poet Juvenal, it was created by a lightning bolt thrown by Jupiter next to an oak.
(Arg.: Raggi Vivai Tartoficoltura)
In the Middle Ages, however, the Catholic Church undertook a crusade against truffle. It was a dangerous tempter in Aphrodisia and, in addition, it was smelled of sulfur, a sign that it was related to the devil. Nor did Muslims trust mushrooms; a 15th-century Sevillian norm prohibited the sale of truffles around mosques. From the Renaissance, truffles regained their divine status in the kitchen and in the price.
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