white truffle

American  

noun

1. an edible fungus, Tuber magnatum pico, occurring in certain parts of northern Italy, and considered a great delicacy.

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Example Sentences

Previously, there’s been Colorado lamb and, at another point, artichoke thistles on the menu — flown in from Santa Barbara and baked in gratin and white truffle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2022

What does musky, garlicky rare Piedmontese white truffle taste like if you can't taste anything?

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022

Walk into a top New York restaurant, and the egg with polenta and a few grams of white truffle that used to run an outrageous $175 will cost an even more outrageous $275 now.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2021

“Right now, white truffle prices are around $4,500 a pound,” says Vittorio Giordano, vice president of Urbani Truffles USA, who’s sourcing his white truffles mostly from Italy.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2021

And so I say to you,—Taste it, the white truffle.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various