Field Guide to North American Truffles: Hunting, Identifying, and Enjoying the World's Most Prized Fungi

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The second most expensive food in the world after saffron, truffles are treasured, coveted, and savoured for their mysterious and exotic flavor. This complete field guide shows chefs and fungi aficionados how to forage for and identify the wide variety of truffles that grow in temperate forests throughout North America. Written by expert horticulturalists who have studied, classified, and enjoyed truffles for decades, the "Field Guide to North American Truffles" makes these celebrated underground jewels accessible to all.

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FRANK EVANS, a founding member of the North American Truffling Society, lives in Portland, Oregon. JAMES TRAPPE, PhD, serves on the faculty of Forest Science at Oregon State University and works with the Australian government as a specialist in truffles and other forest fungi. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon. MATT TRAPPE has served as the Trufflemaster for the North American Truffling Society since 1998. He leads monthly truffle forays near his home in Corvallis, Oregon.