A campaign has been launched in Italy to save the forests that produce one of the world’s most prized culinary treasures – the white truffle. The aromatic fungi grow in woods in the northern region of Piedmont and in particular in an area of rolling countryside known as the Langhe, around the town of Alba. But truffle hunters – known in the local dialect as “trifulau” – are concerned that woodland is being grubbed up…
Campaign launched in Italy to preserve forests that produce world’s most expensive truffle
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