European white truffles can sell for as much as $3,600 a pound, making them and their fellow fungi the most expensive food in the world. One two-pound truffle recently sold for more than $300,000. All ...

Pete Wells joins the pack of dogs and humans trying to sniff out these culinary treasures. Wild truffles provoke intense interest in the Pacific Northwest. Outside the region, there is almost no ...

Truffles, although hidden from view, are an essential part of the forest ecosystem. They grow on the roots of many different Australian plants, including paperbarks, eucalypts, casuarinas, and many ...

Truffles — the non-chocolate kind, sorry — are edible fungi, like mushrooms. Unlike mushrooms, they grow underground near tree roots and the best truffles are wildly, insanely, wait-how-much?

Gabriele Caporale had taken precautions. One afternoon in 2009, he put a muzzle on his cocker spaniel before they went out to search for valuable white truffles in the hills of Perano, a town in ...

Black truffles are a flavorful fungus used in a variety of savory dishes. They are highly nutritious, rich in antioxidants, and full of other potential health benefits. Truffles have gained widespread ...

Truffles are the wave of the future, at least according to Charles Lefevre, founder of Oregon’s New World Truffieres. Over 200 truffle orchards are now under development in the United States—and, ...

Years ago, someone told me you can find truffles in New Jersey. I was skeptical, but it didn’t seem so far-fetched: these odiferous nuggets of culinary renown grow under oak, pine and other trees (we ...