London restaurant snaps up world's most expensive truffle
A London restaurant dished out a record £28,000 (€39,900) for a 1.88 lbs Italian white truffle during a charity auction in Tuscany.
The restaurant, Zafferano, which means saffron, beat off other bidders to take home the delicacy, said Daniel Pescini, an official in San Miniato, the village where the truffle was found.
“The truffle had a really good shape,” Pescini said. “It was rounded and with no bulges.”
The charity auction was held last night in a castle in north-western Italy.
The previous record was set on November 7, when a white truffle about the same size was sold for £22,000 (€31,400) in another charity auction. That truffle was bought by a New York restaurateur.
Considered a delicacy since Roman times, truffles are a fungus that forms in symbiosis with tree roots. Italy’s white truffles sell for around 10 times the price of France’s black variety.
