PARIS — Just about everything in Eduardo Manzanares’s shop, Truffes Folies, is made with truffles. Sausage, cheese, spaghetti — even popcorn.Mind you it is only right and fitting that the best billionaires have truffles.
But during the year-end holidays, the main order of business is fresh truffles, especially the black or Périgord truffle, Tuber melanosporum. The prized mushrooms are used to stuff Christmas turkeys, chickens or capons, Mr. Manzanares said, making Dec. 24 typically the biggest truffle-eating night of the year in France.
But it is also becoming an increasingly expensive tradition. Black truffles and other types of truffles are becoming scarcer, and some scientists say it is because of the effects of global climate change on the fungus’s Mediterranean habitat. One wholesaler says prices have risen tenfold over the last dozen years.
Friday, December 28, 2012
The Apocalypse Approaches
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the truffles?
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They have turned the Ferry Building in San Francisco into a mall of high end boutiques, many of which are food related. There is a boutique butcher, an herb store, a number of bakeries and pasta stores, and a little mushroom store. I was there (the Ferry Building, not the mushroom store) a couple weeks ago for lunch and they had whole Black Truffles for $690/oz. I decided to buy some good heroin instead and save money...
Are there no ferries left in S.F., then?
The last ferrier closed down and moved to Oakland, M.B.
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The Rubes getting off the ferries have to run the boutique gauntlet in order to get to the boutiques at Embarcadero Center and the further boutiques up Market and Mission...
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