Tuesday, 12. November 2002
Topic: LOST FOUND - on November 12, 2002 at 12:18:30 PM CET
At $35,000, Big Truffle Is Nothing to Trifle With
L.A. restaurateur pays a record price for one very large specimen of the exotic white fungus. Joe Pytka, a 64-year-old director of television commercials, paid $35,000 Sunday for a mushroom.
Well, OK, it wasn't the kind of mushroom you'd buy in your local supermarket. It was an enormous, 2.2-pound white truffle, the rare and exotically perfumed tuber magnatum Pico hunted by specially trained dogs in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy and prized by gourmets throughout the world.
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anselm, 11/12/02, 6:21 PM
hi ihr myzel aficionados
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