The disappearing art of truffle hunting is facing a new and “grave threat” from winemakers in northern Italy. The rare white Alba truffle and Piedmont red wines are among the region’s most prized ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Truffle foragers in Italy have long sought to get rid of competition in search of "black gold." Ruthless hunters have resorted to ...

The search for the elusive white Alba truffle in northern Italy is a fragile process for everyone involved, and this documentary finds the poetry in that delicate dance. There’s a key scene in “The ...

White truffles are coveted delicacies in fine cuisine, and a few ounces cost hundreds of dollars. The biggest truffles can sell for up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. A new documentary, “The ...

Even when times are normal and we don't spend days and days cooped up in our own homes, it's easy for us to wish we lived amid, say, the lush forests of Italy, populated by old-growth trees, ...

Going truffle-hunting is like seeking gold — and it's a very memorable travel experience. I can tell you from personal experience – I went truffle-hunting with dogs in Switzerland a few years back, ...

THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS opens with a camera slowly zooming in on a wooded hill side, with trees twinged with autumn colors as bird sounds filled the air. As we get closer, we see a dog, then two, and ...

Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, codirectors of “The Truffle Hunters,” had high hopes for one of their documentary’s festival debuts. “The dream for us was to walk down the red carpet with Birba in ...

Truffles are big business, and some are trying to take out the competition by poisoning the dogs that accompany those known as “truffle hunters.” By Jason Horowitz CAMERATA NUOVA — On a bright morning ...

You’ve got to love a movie that credits its dogs before it does its executive producers. “The Truffle Hunters,” Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s exquisitely charming documentary about old Italian ...