Truffle-hunting training for dogs is a popular “track” of the three-day festival. Any dog can be trained to sniff out the location of ripe native truffles, so the hunters can dig the few inches ...

A winery in Templeton has successfully unlocked the mystery of growing black truffles after a seven-year journey yielded a small quantity of the valuable fungi last month. The Farrell family purchased ...

It is autumn in Tuscany. Francesco Ventroni, a truffle hunter, steps through a burnt-orange and amber-colored wood, scattering the leaf litter with his feet. His dogs bound ahead. But the little ...

In Europe, dogs have been used for centuries for their keen sense of smell to locate prized black and white truffles, which can fetch hundreds or thousands of dollars a pound depending on their ...