Cost of Truffles Can Really Grate ; a Shortage of the Highly Prized Fungi Is Playing Havoc with Menu Pricing. Perhaps It's Best to Play a Waiting Game

Evening Standard - London › November 07, 2007

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SOME WOULD HAVE IT that we are currently facing a truffle crisis.

The white truffle season has just opened, and even by the extravagant standards of the truffle markets prices have soared.

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Cost of Truffles Can Really Grate ; a Shortage of the Highly Prized Fungi Is Playing Havoc with Menu Pricing. Perhaps It's Best to Play a Waiting Game

Everything from global warming to a rainy summer and increased pollution has been blamed for the truffle shortage. The trouble is that we have heard...

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