Is That a Good Thing?

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Truffles are a european thing that Americans have picked up on. They weigh the truffle, and then they keep grating until us ta like, you know, bosta,. And so you've paid the difference in price between what it used to weigh and what it weighs now. You can get as much as you abut da, but it's going to run you four uros at graam or whatever.

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.