Is There an Explosion of Black Winter Truffles?

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Is there an explosion of at thever? Toward thend of the book, you talk about some of the attempts to farm truffles. I'm living in israel, so i just for fun, goggled israel truffles, and found out som misraeli agricultural wishes or trying to create us. And i think you're going to see some really good black winter truffles coming out of israel, thank goodness.

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.