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The most expensive truffle
Two white truffles were sold at special auction held in Macau on November 28 for 330 thousand US dollars.
Buyer delicious mushrooms imported from the Italian Tuscany, became the owner of the network of casinos in Macau, Stanley Ho. Over 330 thousand dollars businessman bought truffles weighing 900 and 400 grams respectively. A similar amount of Stanley Ho in 2007 paid for the truffle weighing nearly 1, 5 kilos, thus setting a record auction price for such mushrooms.
Earlier in November, truffle auction took place in the Italian Piedmont. The most expensive lot of the auction was a truffle weighing 900 grams, which is within 105 thousand euros acquired critic and expert on wine from South Korea Janine Cho Lee.
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Truffles first became known in ancient Rome. Then these eccentric mushrooms found aphrodisiac properties and delivered to the soiree of their rulers. But after the empire collapsed, the population of southern Europe is almost lost interest in truffles. And only occasionally used them as a drug, as bequeathed great physician Avicenna. At the beginning of the XVIII century Dumas wrote: "Connoisseurs of all ages pronounce the word" truffle ", taking off his hat." In 1940 it was collected only 400 tons of the harvest of truffles, and at the end of World War II, the population withdrew totally from getting delicious mushroom until the early 60s. Currently truffles - one of the most exquisite and expensive products, which is valued around the world.
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Buyer delicious mushrooms imported from the Italian Tuscany, became the owner of the network of casinos in Macau, Stanley Ho. Over 330 thousand dollars businessman bought truffles weighing 900 and 400 grams respectively. A similar amount of Stanley Ho in 2007 paid for the truffle weighing nearly 1, 5 kilos, thus setting a record auction price for such mushrooms.
Earlier in November, truffle auction took place in the Italian Piedmont. The most expensive lot of the auction was a truffle weighing 900 grams, which is within 105 thousand euros acquired critic and expert on wine from South Korea Janine Cho Lee.
Photo + text via afp
Truffles first became known in ancient Rome. Then these eccentric mushrooms found aphrodisiac properties and delivered to the soiree of their rulers. But after the empire collapsed, the population of southern Europe is almost lost interest in truffles. And only occasionally used them as a drug, as bequeathed great physician Avicenna. At the beginning of the XVIII century Dumas wrote: "Connoisseurs of all ages pronounce the word" truffle ", taking off his hat." In 1940 it was collected only 400 tons of the harvest of truffles, and at the end of World War II, the population withdrew totally from getting delicious mushroom until the early 60s. Currently truffles - one of the most exquisite and expensive products, which is valued around the world.
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