Culpepper Steak House in Rockwall has big-big-big white truffle

by Steve Doyle

They spent $8,000 on this thing.

Big truffle at Culpepper

ROCKWALL — Chef Chad Bowden of Culpepper Steak House in Rockwall announced that he is sitting on the largest white truffle to make its way to the United States in the past three years. The large Alban truffle was offered up this past week by Urbani Truffle Company and weighs in at 760 grams or 1.7 pounds, at a cost of $8,000.

“The Urbani's understood that we have been looking for a similar truffle for the past few years and when this one became available we placed an offer and they accepted it without going to bid,” stated chef Bowden.

The giant fist-shaped truffle will be used at a special seven-course, seven-chef wine dinner to be hosted by Culpepper Steak House December 7, and for the occasion they have invited and additional six area chefs to prepare courses paired with wines from Bertani, the Italian winery located near Verona in the province of Veneto in northeast Italy.

The chefs invited to participate in the dinner includes Richard Chamberlain and Lan Nickens from Chamberlain's Steak and Chop House, Sharon Hage from York Street, Brian Luscher from the Grape, Dan Landsberg formerly of Tillman's Roadhouse, Randall Copeland and Nathan Tate from Restaurant Ava, and Rachel Jeske, the pastry chef at Culpepper.

For the seven-course dinner chef Jeske will be preparing a white truffled ice cream, and chef Bowden will serve a dry aged Kobe New York strip prepared “caveman style” cooked in mesquite wood coals, with a white truffle scalloped potatoes and a truffled hollandaise sauce.

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