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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eva, a Lagotto Romagnolo dog, hands a truffle she found to her owner Luke Gilbert near Hendersonville, North Carolina, on November ...

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 ...

Going truffle-hunting is like seeking gold — and it's a very memorable travel experience. I can tell you from personal experience – I went truffle-hunting with dogs in Switzerland a few years back, ...

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 ...

"The Truffle Hunters" is a slice of life from a place on Earth that's as hilly and lovely as a fairy tale kingdom and unusual more than ever in our times. Dogs and men - in fact, aged dogs and old men ...

Monza, a truffle hunting dog, and her dog trainer Lois Martin found a new truffle species at a municipal park in Tennessee. On Christmas Eve, Lois Martin decided to take Monza, her Lagotto Romagnolo, ...

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 ...

From left to right Truffle dog trainer Bill Collins, Chef Ken Frank, Robert Chang, Chief Truffle Officer at the American Truffle Company and Professor Paul Thomas, Chief Scientist at the American ...

Organizers of a truffle dog championship for amateurs in Oregon hope it will draw more people to truffle hunting with dogs, which some experts say could improve the Pacific Northwest's truffle crop.

Something funky this way comes. All over the world, deep inside dark forests, hunters tip toe in secret for a wildly expensive delicacy: truffles. The aromatic fungi grows underground, tethered to ...

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 ...