Photos: An Italian hill town celebrates the truffle with style

Chef Alberto Bettini flanked by truffle hunters, Maurizio Lorenzini, left, and Adriano Bartolini.  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

The exterior of Amerigo 1934 trattoria and dispensa (grocery), housed in a three-story building on the main street of Savigno.  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

Passatelli (pasta formed of strands of parmigiano cheese, egg and breadcrumbs pushed through a sieve) with white truffles.  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

Beef tartare with black summer Scorzone truffles, shallots, extra virgin olive oil and sweet salt from Romagna.  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

Shelves of sauces, truffle preparations and other specialty foods in the dispensa.  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

A jar of tomato sauce made with Modena bacon and golden onions on the shelf of the store.  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

Chef Alberto Bettini in the dispensa (grocery store).  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

Polenta with extra-virgin olive oil, parmigiano cheese topped with shaved white truffles  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

Pasta with porcini mushrooms.  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

Almond brittle semifreddo with rubrum sauce (a sauce derived from local sundried red wine grapes).  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

The town square in Savigno.  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

A vintage photograph of Laurel and Hardy hanging over a bed in one of the guest rooms at the locanda  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

Exterior of the dispensa (grocery).  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

Pupa hunting for truffles in a nearby forest.  (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)

A nearby vineyard in Savigno.   (Jerome Levine / Chicago Tribune)