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Truffle season shocks chefs as prices double to US$3,200 a pound
Published Sun, Oct 29, 2017 · 09:50 PM
New York
DURING a bumper year for Italian white truffles, one of fine dining's most precious (read: expensive) ingredients, San Francisco chef Michael Tusk can get practically profligate with the aromatic mushrooms. He'll even use them to top pizza.
"This is probably not a year for that," says the chef and co-owner of Cotogna and the three-Michelin-starred Quince.
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