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White truffles found only in Italy and Croatia, priced up to 7,000 euros a kg Climate change and deforestation reduce white truffle numbers Local businesses innovate with truffle-based products and ...

SAMAWA DESERT, Iraq (Reuters) - "Here it is, the truffle, a blessing from God!" Zahra Buheir carefully digs out a desert truffle from the sandy earth and shows it off between her calloused fingers.

Charles Lefevre is an addict. And a clever one at that, because he's devised a way to sustain himself and the object of his addiction: mushrooms. Lefevre's fungus of choice is the truffle, arguably ...

Something funky this way comes. All over the world, deep inside dark forests, hunters tip toe in secret for a wildly expensive delicacy: truffles. The aromatic fungi grows underground, tethered to ...

MOTOVUN, Croatia, Nov 26 (Reuters) - A COVID-19 lockdown and falling demand put paid to Croatia's annual truffle fair this year, but men and their dogs are combing the country's northwestern tip as ...

Syrian truffle hunters risk their lives to survive, and some have been seriously injured by a land mine. They are calling on ...

BUZET, Croatia (Reuters) -It is white truffle season and Ivana Karlic Ban and her two dogs cruise the autumn-coloured forests of Croatia's northwestern Istria region in hunt of one of the world's most ...