Pigs like the truffles. That's one of the reasons that they got dumb. They're d as truffle hunters, because right yet, they love them. A dog will be finding these things from 30 yards away when they're afoot underground. It's just amazing,. and pin pointing the exact spot and telling you where to dig. The dogs have several different kinds of up grades on on our noses, on they just have a lot more lfactory receptors.
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.