Has the American truffle finally broken through?
Despite millions of dollars of investment, many American truffle orchards have never produced any truffles at all, and only a handful produce more than a few pounds. But now, as Rowan Jacobsen explains in FERN's latest story, published with Smithsonian Magazine, an unlikely trio has seemingly broken the nation's "truffle curse" with an orderly orchard beneath loblolly pines in North Carolina's Piedmont region.(No paywall)