Barbie Latza Nadeau

Barbie Latza Nadeau has reported from Italy for Newsweek Magazine since 1997. She also writes for CNN Traveller, Budget Travel Magazine and Frommer's.

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Newsweek correspondent, Rome

Forget the hype about French black truffles. If you really want gastronomic ecstasy, start sniffing around for Italian white truffles—truly the diamond of tubers. I highly recommend a truffle holiday as a fab niche travel experience. It is now the height of the white truffle season in Italy, where trained dogs are rooting around the base of oak trees. (Truffle-hunting pigs were replaced years ago since they can’t be trained not to eat the treasures.) White truffles, which are never cooked, are value at around $1,000 a pound, but worth every penny.

But don’t try to make the magic last—white truffles should be consumed within a few days of digging them out of the ground, preferably at a fireside table somewhere in a Tuscan villa near where they were harvested.

11:24 pm, Nov 2, 2009

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gnorrigh

white truffles at $1,000 a pound and worth every penny? do you get fries with that?

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12:17 pm, Nov 3, 2009

zizanie

did barbie nadeau pay $1000 per pound for these truffles that are worth every penny?

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5:43 pm, Nov 3, 2009

osea65

Of course she didn't and that is exactly what is so fake and ridiculous about this article. This is not the time to be dumb, overindulgent, insensitive, gullible, hypocritical, bastards that indulge in such despicable extravagances!!!!

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8:48 am, Nov 4, 2009

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