(via TEDEd) Truffles are one of the world’s most expensive foods— in part because global demand often outstrips supply. And truffles are becoming even more rare and more expensive as deforestation and ...

There is a fungus the size of a golf ball that sells for more per ounce than most people earn in a day. It smells like garlic soaked in earth and aged cheese, and it cannot survive more than about a ...

Truffles were introduced to Australia 25 years ago, when the first host trees with T. melanosporum spores were planted there.

Rare Italian white truffles cost over $4000 per kilo — here's why real truffles are so expensive In 2014, the world's largest white truffle was flown to New York, accompanied by a security guard, and ...

Something funky this way comes. All over the world, deep inside dark forests, hunters tip toe in secret for a wildly expensive delicacy: truffles. The aromatic fungi grows underground, tethered to ...