An Italian Requiem for a Mistreated Truffle
The world’s most expensive truffle, bought by a London restaurant for $52,000 last month, was returned to Italy for burial.
When experts in Florence heard that the restaurant left the warty white delicacy in a safe for too long and it rotted, they asked to have the 1.9 pound truffle returned for burial in the hope that it would sprout an even bigger one next year. After a requiem poem and solemn ceremony, the truffle was to be buried under a tree believed to have been planted by 15th century explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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