The Aesthetics of the Truffle

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Some truffles are taken into restaurants and shaved at the table over postose or other food. The experience is more aesthetically pleasing if it's a whole undamaged a trifle. All the shefts want a beautiful round, basically a golf ball. So if it's got furrows in it, if it's not round, am it's not worth as much. And sometimes the truffle will be broken when you dig it up, or the digger will break it.

Journalist and author Rowan Jacobsen talks about his book Truffle Hound with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. This conversation has nothing to do with chocolate. It's about the strange world of underground fungi, found in the forest by specially trained dogs and used by chefs and home cooks around the world. You will learn about truffle oil, cooking with truffles, truffle hounds, and the economics of all of the above.