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19:30 Obama receives 1kg truffle as gift from Acqualagna
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
10 - A record 1kg (precisely 1.012 Kg) truffle was found in Acqualagna in the area of Pesaro Urbino, and will be given to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to celebrate his re-election. Oscar Farinetti, President of Eataly, Bruno Urbani ...
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Truffle hunting in England
Telegraph.co.uk
Feverishly scrabbling in the soil on a chilly autumn day may not be everyone's idea of fun, but I'm a woman obsessed. We've just struck a rich seam of aromatic black truffles in a secret pocket of south-west England. It's incredibly exciting: like ...
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Truffle hunting in England
Telegraph.co.uk
Feverishly scrabbling in the soil on a chilly autumn day may not be everyone's idea of fun, but I'm a woman obsessed. We've just struck a rich seam of aromatic black truffles in a secret pocket of south-west England. It's incredibly exciting: like ...
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Obama to get reelection gift of truffle weighing more than a kilo | The ...
By Agence France-Presse
A small Italian village renowned for its white truffles announced Saturday it would give US President Barack Obama a record specimen weighing in at more than a kilo as a reelection present. “A 1.012-kg truffle from Acqualagna will be gifted to ...
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Truffle hunting comes to Britain in a search for expensive black gold
Metro
Truffles are the most expensive food in the world. The highest quality white truffles can fetch up to £110,000 a kilo at auction but even the cheapest, frozen, black summer truffles bring in £260 a kilo. Known as white and black gold, they are costly ...

White truffle season kicks off with prices lower than 2011
Gazzetta del Sud english
(ANSA) - Rome, October 3 - Gastronomes and enthusiasts of the prized and pungent fungus known as the white truffle are set for a great 2012 season with prices dipping down to 300 euros for 100 grams, 20% lower than 2011. The most prestigious truffles ...

English truffles: where to find the warty delicacies
The Guardian (blog)
According to Dorset-based Truffle UK, which imports continental truffles and also cultivates them here, the fungi tend to grow best in south-facing beech, oak, birch and hazel woods, on chalk or limestone. Particularly favourable sites in Britain, the ...
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The Guardian (blog)Revival in truffle-hunting in England
Telegraph.co.uk
The farmer, who did not want to be named for fear of triggering an invasion of truffle-hunters, harvests up to 220lb of the delicacies every year without even needing to use a specially-trained dog to sniff them out. By contrast the typical annual ...

Truffle pioneers hope the fungi business someday rivals that of Oregon wine
The Register-Guard
Truffle specialist Charles Lefevre, founder of New World Truffieres, the Eugene company that supplied the Cartwrights' trees, believes the Oregon truffle industry will be a similar success. “It's the people who get in now who will be the big stars 30 ...
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No trifling with truffles
Napa Valley Register
For those who want to derive the most enjoyment from truffle dishes, due to the high cost, one must know what they are buying as there are four notable varieties on the market: the French Black Perigord, the Burgundy Tuber, the Italian Alba White, and ...
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Truffle hunting hound - ITV News
Read Truffle hunting hound latest on ITV News. All the Thursday 18th October 2012 news.
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National Truffle Fair in Tuscany | Easier
Every Autumn, San Miniato in Tuscany holds a National White Truffle Fair entitled 'La Sagra del Tartufo Bianco', during the last three weeks of November.
www.easier.com/108395-visit-the-national-truffle-fair-in-tusca...

Not worth the truffle?
The Guardian (blog)
Last week I was in Alba for the White Truffle Fair, where conversely it has been so dry that the sacred ingredient is scarce. This is a region where many take the "Alba madonna" as seriously as football, where the dogs (the idea that they use pigs is ...
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The Guardian (blog)On the truffle trail
Irish Times
GO CROATIA: FROM THE DAPPLED shade of the pool terrace at the family-run San Rocco hotel and restaurant I can, without leaving my wooden sun lounger, reach out and wrest a big, juicy melon from its dusty moorings and pluck handfuls of cherry ...
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New technique to grow black truffles
BioScholar News
It is unquestionable that the black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) is the most ecological, inexpensive and social fungi of mycorrhiza in rural environments. For this reason, researchers of the group “Economics for a Sustainable Environment” at the School ...
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