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THEIR scent is “musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious—a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them,” wrote William Makepeace Thackeray. Alexandre Dumas thought that truffles “make women more…

Planning to attend the Oregon Truffle Festival at the end of the month? Forget it. “The Epicurious Experience” package ($625 per person) is sold out. So is the “Epicurious Gourmand”…

“I’ve already blocked out the dates on my 2015 calendar. The last weekend in January is truffle time, which means the first few weeks of the new year are a…

The Oregon Truffle Festival is so well-liked and jam-packed with interesting events that many of the weekend experiences have already sold out. That said, there’s still truffle dog training and…

There are more than grapes growing at Left Coast Cellars in Oregon’s wine country. Vineyard manager Luke McCollom estimates he’s invested more than $25,000 on an underground crop with the…

The fragrant, elusive, mysterious and costly truffle, whether white, black or in between, has been the object of scientific research for decades. The challenge has been to cultivate it to…

They said it couldn’t be done, but apparently they were wrong. What’s being called the Willamette Valley’s “first cultivated black truffle” has just been found near Corvallis in an orchard…

Abbotsford farmer Bill Stewart has produced B.C.’s first Périgord truffle, a culinary delicacy that fetches up to $2,200 a kilo wholesale. The near-golf-ball sized fungus was unearthed by a truffle-sniffing…

Vineyard owners think beyond wine in planting trees primed for producing cultivated European varieties. Maneuvering up the long driveway into Pfeiffer Winery in Junction City on a recent spring morning,…

When a dog finds its first truffle — the fungus, not the chocolate candy — the sound you hear will most likely be the voice of a very excited dog…

This is not a bad idea at all: a weekend devoted to truffles, including tastings at a picturesque villa, training sessions so that your dog can learn how to hunt…