NEWS FOR EPICURES.
The truffle lias been discovered —ia promising quantities it is whispered—in the hills not far from Mussoorie, India. As was fitting, the find was made by a French visitor; and after being submitted to such practical experts as Signer Peliti and the Viceroy's chef, the specimens he exhumed are pronounced to be undoubtedly truflies. The discrimination is not easy, for false truffles of different binds are as plentiful as toadstools; but in this case (eays a Calcutta paper) there appears to be no room for doubt; and at any rate local talent is so well couviuced that it lias got hold of the real article, and [not Epping Untiles or puff-balls, that dogs are now being methodically instructed in the business iu order to exploit the discovery. As is well
known, tlie natural field of the epicurean fungus |is very limited, and the price which it fetches large. If it exists, then, in sufficient abundance round Mussoorie, may fly to thoughts of a flourishing export trade, that is to say, if we can rise all at onco beyond the idea of fresh truffles for the Indian dinner-table.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2760, 22 March 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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190NEWS FOR EPICURES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2760, 22 March 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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