Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The text showed up around 7 p.m. on a Thursday night in late February. I had been loosely communicating with a truffle hunter ...

Truffles are ubiquitous in fine dining restaurants around the world, but we don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how they got there when they’re being shaved over our extravagant dinner. That’s ...

If you’ve never gone truffle-hunting, you are missing out on one of life’s greatest experiences. Even Kim Kardashian would tell you that — well, sort of. Kardashian (who co-founded a private equity ...

First things first, let’s clear up a common misconception: truffles are not mushrooms. They are a fungus, and while they are closely related, they are not actually part of the mushroom family. Instead ...

In Europe, truffle hunting is a prized sport. In Syria, it’s a potential death sentence. Middle Eastern black and white truffles have long been collected by Syrians, a delicacy that they forage after ...

A TASTE OF SUMMER is again on our morning menu: a delicacy harvested by trained scavengers, as John Blackstone will show us: Please don't sniff at the livestock arena setting. This is the pinnacle of ...

An inside look at the elite class of canines trained to hunt one of the most prized culinary delicacies: the truffle. Pickles with truffle farmer Duncan Garvey, left, and chef Tim Pak Poy, right, ...

Truffles have long been big business, but nothing beats hunting for them yourself. There are four different truffle species commonly found in Croatia’s Northwestern most state, Istria. Karlić Tartufi ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — In this week's "Let's Get Out There," we head to the Northern Willamette Valley to seek out what some would call treasure. But it's not Oregon wine; it's something underground: Oregon ...

The text showed up around 7 p.m. on a Thursday night in late February. I had been loosely communicating with a truffle hunter named Ava, who, like any good forager or fungus seeker, had been pretty ...