The text showed up around 7 p.m. on a Thursday night in late February. I had been loosely communicating with a truffle hunter named Ava, who, like any good forager or fungus seeker, had been pretty ...

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Truffle cultivators are becoming increasingly common across Appalachia and the southeast region, and say the climate and soil ...

If you’ve never gone truffle-hunting, you are missing out on one of life’s greatest experiences. Even Kim Kardashian would tell you that — well, sort of. Kardashian (who co-founded a private equity ...

A truffle hunt was our favorite day of a recent trip to Italy. Hiking beautiful countryside with dogs, then eating delicious scrambled eggs and soft, young Pecorino Romano cheese with a freshly found ...

Something funky this way comes. All over the world, deep inside dark forests, hunters tip toe in secret for a wildly expensive delicacy: truffles. The aromatic fungi grows underground, tethered to ...

Truffle hunting is serious—and dirty—business. White truffles, which are in season from about September to December, sell for thousands of dollars per pound. Black truffles, sold from December through ...

We travelled deep into the forests of Istria, Croatia to hunt for white truffles – one of the rarest and most expensive ...

In Europe, truffle hunting is a prized sport. In Syria, it’s a potential death sentence. Middle Eastern black and white truffles have long been collected by Syrians, a delicacy that they forage after ...

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