num_pages: 288
description: Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables the truffle supply chain is touched by theft secrecy sabotage and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buyers and even knowledgeable experts are duped by liars and counterfeits. This expos documents the dark sometimes deadly crimes at each level of the truffles path from ground to plate making sense of an industry that traffics in scarcity seduction and cash.
language: English
title: The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers