Crossword-Solution: VITTADINI 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Pliny, Galen, and Dioscorides mention various esculent species, notably varieties of the truffle, the boletus and the puff-ball, and Vittadini writes enthusiastically of the gastronomic qualities of a large number of species.

Vittadini says: "When the giant puff-ball is conveniently situated you should only take one slice at a time, cutting it horizontally and using great care not to disturb its growth, to prevent decay, and thus one may have a fritter every day for a week." Different authors write with enthusiasm of the merits of the giant puff-ball as an esculent.

Vittadini found that when the tubes of a _Boletus_ were cut out from a growing plant, they were after a time reproduced.

Vittadini, whose excellent work on the esculent kinds of Italy is without a rival, himself eats, and gives us ample receipts for dressing them.

They are all innocuous, according to Vittadini, which is not strictly the case, though many species hitherto reputed unwholesome, or worse, appear to lose their bad properties by drying.