Truffle Academy in the world, meet two truffle icons: Augusto Tocci and Pino Crestini
Augusto Tocci and Pino Crestini: study, research, storytelling and food and wine. Two truffle masters who together represent science and practicality
Friends and accomplices in the research and discovery of truffles, for the Truffle Academy in the world they represent scientificity and practicality.
It all starts with the birth of the Sant’Angelo in Vado truffle center about forty years ago.
Since then, a lot of road has been made, up to today, where for these two characters there are no more secrets around the truffle.
Both complement each other and are an inexhaustible source of culture that they give us every day.
Friends and accomplices in the research and discovery of truffles, for the Truffle Academy in the world they represent scientificity and practicality.
It all starts with the birth of the Sant’Angelo in Vado truffle center about forty years ago.
Since then, a lot of road has been made, up to today, where for these two characters there are no more secrets around the truffle.
Augusto Tocci, starting as a young researcher and director of the Sant’Angelo in Vado Center, with the help of Pino has gained an international experience.
While Pino, from an empirical practitioner with the support of Tocci, has turned into a real truffle hunter and also a great breeder of truffle dogs.
Passion, practicality and science lead to competence.
These two characters represent the scientific part of the academy that increasingly wants to unite, study, research, storytelling and food and wine.
