the reason truffles are so expensive is because of their unique biology and WWI. Truffles can only grow as part of a healthy forest, managed by caretakers, who train dogs and pigs to find them, and were regarded as an every day food in the 19th century
World War I changed that
Came a little too close for comfort with this guy. I wish I could say this was taken on a telephoto (this is 24mm). This could have gone very differently but we left each other alone and went our separate ways – at Honolulu, HI