{"id":3990,"date":"2011-03-04T07:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2011-03-04T07:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T13:41:33","slug":"truffle-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3990","title":{"rendered":"Truffle trouble."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would fill my heart with delight if someone managed to grow truffles reliably in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I know there are many people working on the problem (supposedly including one person out near Dripping Springs; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/07\/16\/us\/southwest-journal-a-passion-in-truffles-for-texas.html\">this article<\/a> is from 1984, and I haven&#8217;t been able to find anything more recent in Google) but it seems that the growing of truffles is more difficult than you might expect for something that&#8217;s basically a fungus.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is by way of introducing today&#8217;s <strong>NYT <\/strong>article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/04\/us\/04truffles.html?ref=todayspaper\">two truffle growers in North Carolina who&#8217;ve been engaged in a lengthy legal battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Important safety tip:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/04\/us\/04truffles.html?ref=todayspaper\">Local chefs give North Carolina mixed reviews.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/04\/us\/04truffles.html?ref=todayspaper\">\u201cThey don\u2019t seem to have a lot of quality control,\u201d said Andrea Reusing, chef and owner of the Lantern restaurant in Chapel Hill. And actually getting them can be maddening.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/04\/us\/04truffles.html?ref=todayspaper\">\u201cWe need to start calling them wacky truffles on the menu,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is a certain kind of spaciness to whole thing.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would fill my heart with delight if someone managed to grow truffles reliably in the United States. I know there are many people working on the problem (supposedly including one person out near Dripping Springs; this article is from 1984, and I haven&#8217;t been able to find anything more recent in Google) but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}