Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Truffle foragers in Italy have long sought to get rid of competition in search of "black gold." Ruthless hunters have resorted to ...

Tuber canirevelatum, meaning the "dog-found" truffle, was named in honor of truffle dogs and Monza, the dog who discovered it with her trainer Lois Martin. The other, Tuber cumberlandense, was named ...

In 2018, there was a major upset at the Joriad North American Truffle Dog Championship in Eugene, arguably the most popular part of the Oregon Truffle Festival (this year happening on February 17). A ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jim Sanford, a truffle-dog trainer in Tennessee. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I was 25 years old in 1979, I met an ...

Truffles are big business, and some are trying to take out the competition by poisoning the dogs that accompany those known as “truffle hunters.” By Jason Horowitz CAMERATA NUOVA — On a bright morning ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Submitter Sean Montes explains that his photo, taken in France, shows a ...

There’s culinary gold in them thar tree roots. That’s because winter is truffle season in the rainy woods of Snohomish County. But before chefs can garnish bowls of creamy polenta with paper-thin ...

Two dogs specially trained to sniff out truffles have helped researchers identify two new-to-science truffle species in the U.S., according to a recent study. Truffles, synonymous with luxury fine ...

Researchers, citizen scientists and their 'truffle dogs' -- have discovered two new species of truffle. Tuber canirevelatum, meaning the 'dog-found' truffle, was named in honor of truffle dogs and ...

Even when times are normal and we don't spend days and days cooped up in our own homes, it's easy for us to wish we lived amid, say, the lush forests of Italy, populated by old-growth trees, ...