Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Don't Trifle with this Truffle

This is to taunt you, Francis, nyah-nyah :) May your fungus dreams be haunted with inadequcay issues! This is out of your league...but at least you're not alone in the obsession. The bidding was wild, fierce and unrelenting, but in the end...the Chinaman did it.

Hong Kong Tycoon Pays $160,406 for Italian Truffle

Gordon Wu and his wife outbid connoisseurs from France and Italy to win the 3.3 pounds Alba white truffle from an international auction on Sunday, a spokeswoman for the Ritz-Carlton hotel, which hosted the Hong Kong part of the auction, said Tuesday.

It was the second time Hong Kong bidders won a pricey fungus at the annual auction, held in Grizane, Italy and satellite-linked with Paris and Hong Kong.

[read the whole story at FOXnews]

2 Comments:

Blogger dirty dingus said...

my revenge

Tue Nov 28, 10:47:00 AM CST  
Blogger -sry said...

oooohhhhh...aahhhhhh... black truffle. So what cha' gonna do? Stir fry all the juice out of 'em *smirk* God curse you through the aeons if you don't know that's sarcasm...either that or take your black truffles away.

You *have* to blog the culinary results, you know? Have the wifey take the pictures :)

Mushroom porn, indeed!

-sry

Tue Nov 28, 04:46:00 PM CST  

Post a Comment

<< Home