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 ...

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 ...

As a cook and an avid diner, I’ve become a little fixated on seeing where my food comes from. I’ve been fishing for halibut and salmon in Alaska, tasted my favorite bubbly in Champagne, walked the ...

A truffle hunt was our favorite day of a recent trip to Italy. Hiking beautiful countryside with dogs, then eating delicious scrambled eggs and soft, young Pecorino Romano cheese with a freshly found ...

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 ...

I recently saw a Palm Beacher I know walking a dog I didn’t know. The pup was so beautiful, and so unusual-looking, that I asked his owner what type of dog it was. Artie is a Lagotto Romagnolo, said ...

This article was written by WTOP’s news partner, InsideNoVa.com, and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. There are only around 10 producing truffle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If someone told me that one day I would have too many truffles, I would have checked to see if they had a fever. Too many truffles? Is that like having too many oysters? Or too much champagne? Is that ...