An Italian truffle weighing around 2 pounds sold for an eye-popping 103,000 euros ($117,795.64 USD) at the 21st World White Truffle Auction Sunday in Alba, a town in northern Italy's Piedmont region.

And that’s fine. I understand my $12 truffle fries aren’t shaved with wild-foraged Italian truffles. I get it. But I’m just asking for some discretion.

The rare Italian white truffle is a holy grail for foodies. Tuscany’s San Miniato Hills are one of the few places where it can be found.

Bogus ‘Italian’ truffles. Germani, the president of Italy’s National Association of Truffle Hunters, ...

Are Italian truffle dogs suitable for first-time dog owners? While intelligent and trainable, the Lagotto Romagnolo’s working heritage means they require consistent mental stimulation and exercise.

A 2.2 pound Italian white truffle has been auctioned off in Rome for $41,000, purchased by a New York restaurateur. NPR's Scott Simon takes note.

Traditionally, they required an Italian nonno and his team of truffle-sniffing dogs to unearth them from virgin Italian forests (no, really). But over the last decade, ...

Italy’s white truffles are becoming more elusive because of rising temperatures. Now a wave of attacks on the dogs that hunt them is creating more problems.

“That’s the price of the white truffle some pontified waiter shaves on your plate in Tokyo, or New York, or London,” Simon Martin, a professor of modern Italian history and licensed truffle ...