Gastronomes Foraging for Bargain Truffles Are In Luck

A white-truffle glut is ruffling the expensive-restaurant scene. A wet, warm summer in Northern Italy, where the world’s most desirable white truffles are dug up, has produced a bumper fungi crop and pushed prices down about 50% from last year.



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