White truffles cost from about $1000 to over $2000 a pound, and black truffles cost from $300 to over $600 a pound. Those prices reflect American dollars and local (U.S.) delivery, as this is approximately what the better eateries have to pay to get them. You'll not be seeing them in the produce department of your neighborhood grocery store.
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Truffles are multicellular organisms. They are fungi belonging to the genus *Tuber* and are composed of multiple cells like other fungi. Truffles form a network of hyphae (thread-like structures) underground, and they reproduce by producing spores. These spores develop into new truffles when conditions are favorable. While truffles themselves are not visible multicellular organisms, they are comprised
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Spores are eaten and spread by small animals
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Truffles (white and black) are flown over from Europe, where they are harvested and packaged for shipment. They are very expensive and much sought after by better restaurants, so they are hurried to the Americas via air shipment and immediately trucked to purchasers. See the related link below to the cost of truffles and you'll see why they're put on big aircraft and moved that way.
The following statements about truffles are correct: Truffles are considered mushrooms. The country that produces the most truffles is France. Truffles are expensive and have a pungent taste.
White truffles
No, truffles are either a dessert or a thing that European pigs find. Wine can be said to have the flavor of truffles.
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Yes you can find truffles in Wisconsin.
Truffles are a fungus and are dug up by trained pigs or dogs
Truffles grow under the ground.
It usually takes about 7 or 8 years for black perigold truffles to grow, and probably the white ones as well. it says on wikipedia that there an attempt to cultivate truffles in 1847, and in 1855 those truffles won a prize in the paris fair, so they must have grown to a sufficent size.
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