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  • Chinese "pig-snout" fungi are flooding gourmet-food markets, and the French are not amused

    02/14/2005 1:52:23 PM PST · by Guillermo · 17 replies · 563+ views
    Time Asia ^ | 2-14-2005 | Hannah Beech
    SPAN class=headline>Truffle KerfuffleChinese "pig-snout" fungi are flooding gourmet-food markets, and the French are not amused   BY HANNAH BEECH | HAMA The locals of Hama village know what to do with a fat, smelly truffle. For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China's Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal, the farmers fed a shovelful of truffles to the creatures in order to guarantee a future litter of piglets. Then, a few years ago, a strange tale wended its way through this hamlet so disconnected from modern China that Cultural Revolution slogans from...