First things first, let’s clear up a common misconception: truffles are not mushrooms. They are a fungus, and while they are ...

Truffles are on the menu at Coltivare. They're also on the mind for chef Ryan Pera's dog, who is learning to find them by ...

Massi rushes down the slope, leaps across a slow-running stream and disappears inside a thick bush. Rosie, his young ...

This article was written by WTOP’s news partner, InsideNoVa.com, and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. There are only around 10 producing truffle ...

I’m standing in the Umbrian forest and Nancy Silverton is holding one of the largest white truffles I’ve ever seen. The chef—with the help of our truffle-hunting guide, Michele Filosi, and Argo, his ...

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 ...

The massacre was silent, the assassins stealthy and the impact devastating. The victims: more than 30 dogs, highly trained to sniff out the valuable truffles that grow underground near the dank and ...

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(ALBA, Italy) — More than a hundred thousand dollars for a fungus? It’s true. Some of the rarest mushrooms in the world — white truffles — have seen eager bidders raising their offers well beyond six ...

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 ...