A Trunk Full Of Truffles

The Sporkful | Nov 28, 2016

We follow a young truffle dealer as he hustles his way across New York City selling white truffles out of a styrofoam cooler in his car for thousands of dollars a pop. Then we try to figure out why people pay so much for this funky fungus.

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