Do You Really Want to Go Truffle Hunting?

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Truffle hunting has become something of a tourist attraction. A lot of these folks bury truffles in advance so that the tourists will be sure to find something and have a good day. The hunters don't really say that it's a simulated truffle hunt. They try to pretend it's real. But i, being a journalist, wanted the full the full deal. So i finally found a hunter who was willing to really take me out.

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.