On friday, i'm heading down to the appella mountains, an undisclosed location in the appellation mountains, for to hunt the appellation trufflea native truffle of the eastern us. And it's because of whatever that those sense, due to your limbic system, you know, they they cut straight to that area where memory and emotion are sort of entangled aAnd so much of that is through smell, and we don't even realize it. It's not just like the flavor on your tongue. It's the way the lingerslike often what will happen with a truffle and you be like, at that's an amazing smell. But then days later,
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.