Joseph Talon in Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt, Vaucluse (84)

'À JOSEPH TALON

Lou rabassié

Père de la

Trufficulture'

Joseph Talon (1793-1873), the 'father of trufficulture', thought of planting acorns from 'truffle oaks', and a decade later there was an important harvest of black truffles from young oaks. That's the kind of thinking that makes Joseph Talon a very important name in connoisseurs of mushrooms.