{"id":176,"date":"2005-11-15T19:34:14","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/?p=176"},"modified":"2005-11-15T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T06:34:14","slug":"a-few-euro-to0-far-the-most-expensive-truffle-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/a-few-euro-to0-far-the-most-expensive-truffle-on-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"A few Euro to0 far: the most expensive truffle on the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>t’s white truffle charity auction time. Someone – obviously rather wealthy – spent E95,000 on a 1.2kg white truffle. The BBC report<\/a> is terse and to the point, but the Independent<\/em>‘s coverage<\/a> is rather good:<\/p>\n

“The appeal of the tartufo bianchi was dramatically underlined in London yesterday when a bidder from Hong Kong paid a staggering E95,000 (\u00a363,000) for a 1.2 kilo Alba at a three-country charity auction organised by Christies, making it the world’s most expensive truffle and dwarfing the \u00a328,000 paid for an 850g truffle at a similar event last year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The writer, Terry Kirby, also has some nice colour:<\/p>\n

“At restaurants, none of this comes cheap, of course, which can provide a shock for unsuspecting diners wishing to sample the rare treat. Three years ago, one customer at Locanda Locatelli, a central London restaurant owned by celebrity chef Giorgio Locatelli, refused to pay \u00a360 for two plates of pasta with white truffles and was locked in the toilet until he changed his mind.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I will be carrying a fully charged credit card on my European tour, and will not be going to Locatelli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s white truffle charity auction time. Someone – obviously rather wealthy – spent E95,000 on a 1.2kg white truffle. The BBC report is terse and to the point, but the Independent‘s coverage is rather good: “The appeal of the tartufo bianchi was dramatically underlined in London yesterday when a bidder from Hong Kong paid a … Continue reading A few Euro to0 far: the most expensive truffle on the planet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-wine","category-truffles-farm","tag-truffles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}