• Why are truffles so darned expensive?

    Why are truffles so darned expensive?

    They’re difficult to find, a pain to grow and lose their sexy aroma within a week Truffles — the non-chocolate kind, sorry — are edible fungi, like mushrooms. Unlike mushrooms, they grow underground near tree roots and the best truffles are wildly, insanely, wait-how-much? expensive, sometimes as much as thousands of dollars per pound. Truffles are […]

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