Some truffles are particularly expensive and therefore often the target of food fraud. For example, high-priced Piedmont truffles (Tuber magnatum) are often difficult to distinguish from the cheaper ...

Some of the most prized and pricey dishes on restaurant menus feature truffles. Not only are truffles expensive and highly sought-after, they're also very perishable and hard to categorize. Even if ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new crisis is brewing in the fall of 2021—a shortage of white truffles. Gasp. Of course, this gourmet rarity has always been ...

The glass jar arrived overnight from North Carolina, 650 miles to the east. It was sitting in the kitchen at The Hive, an upscale, art-filled restaurant in the increasingly cosmopolitan town of ...

A few minutes after 9 A.M. on Saturday morning, at Sotheby’s, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a small group of people huddled around a knobbly, dirt-smudged tuber sitting on a white china cake ...