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A truffle hunter's best friend

January 8, 2012 5:18 PM

Pigs once sniffed out truffles nestled in the soil, but now it's a dog's job to find these valuable fungi. Given the high cost of truffles, you could call these dogs "gold diggers."

Truffles: The Most Expensive Food in the World
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by Vxvendetta December 1, 2012 5:54 PM EST
@ TRUFFLESUSA: http://www.aduc.it/comunicato/truffa+tartufi_308.php
You don't need the translation I guess.
What an HYPOCRASY! As fake as a furred truffle hunter
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by Vxvendetta December 1, 2012 5:53 PM EST
@ TRUFFLESUSA: http://www.aduc.it/comunicato/truffa+tartufi_308.php
You don't need the translation I guess.
What an HYPOCRASY! As fake as a furred truffle hunter
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by Vxvendetta December 1, 2012 5:47 PM EST
http://www.aduc.it/comunicato/truffa+tartufi_308.php
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by Rebtris February 1, 2012 8:12 PM EST
Blessed with good fortune and the best thing she can find to spend the money on is the product of hideous suffering. Shame on people who buy fur coats, you are supporting the worst kind of cruelty.
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by DKP-Sheba January 9, 2012 3:17 PM EST
Look them up "Shiba Inu" or "Sheba Inu". I have owned two. One male, one female. My female (Naomi) will bring in rocks in from the yard. As much as I tell her "NO!" and toss it out, she will always find the rock and bring it back. I have even tossed a few in a different dirction from where she is looking. I will often find the same rocks on the floor in the morning when I am making coffee. All i want to say, is give "Shiba Inus" a chance. You may find more rewards than truffles.
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by DKP-Sheba January 9, 2012 2:37 PM EST
A well trained Sheba Inu will most likely find your truffles much faster than a Lab. Just Sayin, My sheba found catfish bones 8 inches bellow the surface of a sandy beach that was two inches below water. You have chosen unwisely. You need a Sheba Inu.
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by Chinatruffles January 8, 2012 11:41 PM EST
The Journalist need to do the home work!!! Urbani has been arrested recently for illegal importation and sales of Chinese truffles in Italy.
Would be appropriate to see someone else as a defender of the European truffles.
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by jeanannd January 8, 2012 9:59 PM EST
The woman who said you "Can't grow truffles on a farm" was wrong. In the USA Truffle growing is a big farming industry. All sorts of truffles, some are spores injected into the ground around tree roots. Both the famous European white and black truffle spores are grown in the USA. For more info I suggest the below URL's.

http://www.growingtruffles.org/

http://garlandtruffles.com/trufflegrowingbasics.html

http://dba-oracle.blogspot.com/2008/01/grow-your-own-truffles.html

http://www.cheftalk.com/t/5994/hey-want-to-grow-your-own-truffles
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by jvokac January 8, 2012 9:20 PM EST
Regarding your report on truffles: not only are US consumers being fooled by selling Chinese truffles as if they are French or Italian, portobello and cremini mushrooms are being sold as if they are an "exotic" mushroom like shiitakes. "Portobello" and "cremini" are names made up to sell a brown strain of agaricus bisporus (the common button mushroom). This is another example of how our government fails to protect the US consumer.
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