0 a type of fungus that grows underground and can be eaten. Truffles are expensive because they are very rare: --
The Dordogne region's gastronomic specialities include truffles and foie gras.
1 a small, round, very soft chocolate: --
rum truffles
Moreover, part of the scent emitted by the truffles may limit the growth of other plants through oxidative stress.
Their success and the value of the resulting truffles has encouraged a small industry to develop.
In the last 30 years, new attempts for mass production of truffles have been started.
The law does not specifically outlaw truffles (only mushrooms) thus making them legal.
However, traditionalists argue that the swine have more sensitive noses and their particular taste for truffles leads to a more devoted beast.
He also eats expensive food at recess, such as caviar, truffles, and a special version of turon for congressmen.
Rodents and insectivores, whose food stashes were destroyed in the fire, eat truffles, which survived underground, and leave feces containing nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the soil.
In these areas, the search for black truffles and their cultivation is a tradition going back more than 200 years.
