Is Your Microplane a Good Shaver?

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You can use any grater in your house to do it, really. But the microplanes are perfect. I just want to get that flavor all over so i just grat trufflesd but then you got to look back at the at the grater and realize, tetw's like 12 dollars worth of left in the little little intersices of shaving part. No joke. We're dating ourselves.

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.