Last spring, I stood in an orchard in eastern Tennessee with a man who cupped in his hands one of the earth’s great treasures. It was black and coarse, about the size of a baby’s fist, and covered in ...

As one of the world's most revered gourmet foods, some truffles can sell for more than €1,000 per kilogram, making cultivation a lucrative business. However, the industry remains unpredictable, with ...

Charles Lefevre is an addict. And a clever one at that, because he's devised a way to sustain himself and the object of his addiction: mushrooms. Lefevre's fungus of choice is the truffle, arguably ...

When Jose Soriano was a child, the hills near the village of Sarrion in Spain's remote and sparsely populated eastern province of Teruel were mostly uncultivated, covered in brush and rocks. Now they ...

Cultivating truffles in Sonoma County? It has been an intriguing idea since Henry Trione first explored it with his friend J. Ralph Stone in the 1970s. But growing truffles in Sonoma County didn’t ...

For the past four years, between the months of December and March, Seth Angerer has walked through his family’s orchard in Geyserville, Calif., hoping for a miracle. With his dogs Leo and Vito in tow, ...

There is a natural alchemy that happens deep in the forests around Alba – known as the gourmet capital of Piedmont in Italy. Here is where the white truffle grows hidden in the ground among the root ...

BEAVERCREEK — Paul Bishop Sr. used to joke that his ancestors spent all their time clearing trees from — and he spent all his time replanting them. Bishop, who died June 19 at 83 after a yearlong ...