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Nicola Davison April 20, 2018
Truffle economy: how a UK scientist sniffed out a culinary opportunityThe prized fungus has has long proved difficult to grow outside its natural habitat — until now
TAMING THETRUFFLETruffles are highly prized as a delicacy; one sold in New York in 2014 for more than, $60,000. Unfortunately the elusive fungus has long proved difficult to grow outside its natural habitat- until now. Nicola Davison meets the Britishscientist who sniffed out a culinaryopportunity. Photographs by Sophie Gerrard
Joyce and her springer spaniel Maxwell hunt for truffles at a plantation near Edinburgh © Sophie Gerrard
Périgord truffles grown in Wales
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