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[lookingland]

Restaurateur Buys Most Expensive Truffle <~

ROME - New York restaurateur Francesco Giambelli dished out a record $41,000 for a 2.4-pound prize Italian white truffle, auction organizers said Monday.

The 85-year-old, who owns Giambelli 50th on New York's East Side, beat off an unnamed opponent in Moscow to claim the largest truffle ever to be sold at an auction, auction director Davide Paolini said.

"It was very aggressive," he said. "No one has ever paid this much for a truffle."

oy vey ~ !

Comments

[lastremnant.livejournal.com]

what exactly IS a truffle anyways?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

a truffle is a rare and delicious fungus ~ pigs were trained to root for them because they can smell them under the forest leaves, dirt, etc.

they're (obviously) very costly.

: D

[lastremnant.livejournal.com]

hmmm, we must breed some pigs to hunt truffles so we can make our millions....

[geckobird.livejournal.com]

Is that girl holding a truffle?

It looks like a rock full of sea shells or petrified eggs to me....

^___^

[annabellissima.livejournal.com]

*nods, and is immediately reminded of the pigs from The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker.

Allriiiiiiighty then...

[annabellissima.livejournal.com]

=0_o=

*wonders how someone could throw such an exhorbitant amount of money away on something that will be consumed almost immediately*

It sure doesn't look appetizing when it's fresh like that! When I first saw it I wondered if it was some sort of animal excrement =>_<=

Re: Allriiiiiiighty then...

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

the only positive think i can say about the outrageous expediture is that the money did go to charity.

[cottonjane.livejournal.com]

That's /huge/.