The Washington Post, November 2010

FALLING IN LOVE WITH TRUFFLES ON CROATIA'S ISTRIAN PENINSULA
It's a warm afternoon in the hills of Istria. I'm munching on a sweet tartufone - a potato dumpling filled with chocolate, covered with a bechamel-chocolate sauce and topped with shavings of fresh white truffle - and wondering: Am I starting to feel a little frisky (you know what they say about truffles), or is it just the high Fahrenheit factor at work?

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CNN Traveller, November 2010

CROATIA: A TASTE OF ISTRIA
From truffles, to chestnuts, to seafood, the Istria region of Croatia has a lot to offer, as Rudolf Abraham reports: Driving through the Ucka tunnel – over 5km long, and bored through the mountains above the sunny eastern coast of Croatia’s Istrian peninsula – you emerge quite suddenly into an entirely different landscape, more fertile than the coast, and dotted with medieval hill towns.

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Blogs about Istria: Sandra Ramani, Globorati.com, September 2010

Istria Rising

Blogs about Istria: Kerrin Rousset, MyKugelhopf.ch, May 2010

Catch of the day: Batelina, Istria (Croatia)