The text showed up around 7 p.m. on a Thursday night in late February. I had been loosely communicating with a truffle hunter named Ava, who, like any good forager or fungus seeker, had been pretty ...

Truffles are ubiquitous in fine dining restaurants around the world, but we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how they got there when they’re being shaved over our extravagant dinner. That’s ...

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 ...

The wheat fields are fallow in the Montalcino region of Tuscany, and the wine harvest has just concluded, the hillside vines stripped of their Sangiovese Grosso grapes. Under the ground, however, in ...

If you’ve never gone truffle-hunting, you are missing out on one of life’s greatest experiences. Even Kim Kardashian would tell you that — well, sort of. Kardashian (who co-founded a private equity ...

Truffles have long been big business, but nothing beats hunting for them yourself. There are four different truffle species commonly found in Croatia’s Northwestern most state, Istria. Karlić Tartufi ...

A truffle hunt was our favorite day of a recent trip to Italy. Hiking beautiful countryside with dogs, then eating delicious scrambled eggs and soft, young Pecorino Romano cheese with a freshly found ...

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 ...

Truffle cultivators are becoming increasingly common across Appalachia and the southeast region, and say the climate and soil ...