See on Scoop.it - Good Things From Italy - Le Cose Buone d’Italia
Wet summer and sunny autumn create perfect conditions for prized truffles, sending usually high prices tumblingThey are a famously expensive culinary indulgence but an unusually wet summer followed by a warm autumn has made Italy’s prized white truffles affordable for once.Specially-trained dogs are digging up a record haul of the elusive fungi, which emerge from the damp leaf litter of the forest floor at this time of year.
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