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"The Truffle Hunters"

David Brancaccio on “The Truffle Hunters”

by David Brancaccio
Oct 21, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #79
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"The Truffle Hunters"

Inside the secretive market for truffles, one of the world's most expensive foods

by David Brancaccio and Rose Conlon
Oct 21, 2021
How the modern truffle market is changing— and what's staying the same.
"Truffle hunters told me one of their chief challenges is trying to figure out what to charge," said Rowan Jacobsen, author of "Truffle Hound."
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"The Truffle Hunters"

Previewing our October documentary selection

by The Econ Extra Credit Team
Oct 7, 2021
Econ Extra Credit newsletter #78
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Death, theft ... and the quest for the world's most coveted fungus

by David Brancaccio
Jun 28, 2019
"I think the best analogy is probably sex or drugs," is how author Ryan Jacobs describes the allure of the truffle.
An inspector approved by the regional federation of truffle harvesters smells a black truffles (tuber melanosporum), on December 23, 2018, during an inspection at a truffle market in Rognes, southeastern France.
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Plentiful rain brings abundant and cheaper truffles to the table

by Janet Babin
Jan 10, 2019
But there's no guarantee that will continue.
A man holds a white truffle at the Grinzane Cavour castle near Alba, northwestern Italy, on November 12, 2017.
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