
Truffles
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
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The Great French Wine Blight
In 1863, insects wiped out most of the vineyards in France. Some European grape growers responded by breeding and growing new grape vines that philaxera doesn't want to eat. But a lot of other ones just moved into farming truffles. It's sort of a really good parallel is winemaking.
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