The text showed up around 7 p.m. on a Thursday night in late February. I had been loosely communicating with a truffle hunter named Ava, who, like any good forager or fungus seeker, had been pretty ...

In Europe, truffle hunting is a prized sport. In Syria, it’s a potential death sentence. Middle Eastern black and white truffles have long been collected by Syrians, a delicacy that they forage after ...

Truffles have long been big business, but nothing beats hunting for them yourself. There are four different truffle species commonly found in Croatia’s Northwestern most state, Istria. Karlić Tartufi ...

If you’ve never gone truffle-hunting, you are missing out on one of life’s greatest experiences. Even Kim Kardashian would tell you that — well, sort of. Kardashian (who co-founded a private equity ...

Truffles are ubiquitous in fine dining restaurants around the world, but we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how they got there when they’re being shaved over our extravagant dinner. That’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — This week we're heading on a hunting trip with “man’s best friend” who has the keenest sense of smell for finding underground treasure just under the forest duff — it’s an Oregon ...

A TASTE OF SUMMER is again on our morning menu: a delicacy harvested by trained scavengers, as John Blackstone will show us: Please don't sniff at the livestock arena setting. This is the pinnacle of ...

If someone told me that one day I would have too many truffles, I would have checked to see if they had a fever. Too many truffles? Is that like having too many oysters? Or too much champagne? Is that ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — In this week's "Let's Get Out There," we head to the Northern Willamette Valley to seek out what some would call treasure. But it's not Oregon wine; it's something underground: Oregon ...

I recently saw a Palm Beacher I know walking a dog I didn’t know. The pup was so beautiful, and so unusual-looking, that I asked his owner what type of dog it was. Artie is a Lagotto Romagnolo, said ...