First it was high-seas fishermen,then Arctic truck drivers. The latest addition to this all-recent action genre? Er, it’s men sniffing out fungiAmid the bounteous wealth of reality TV, and what I like to call Perilous Reality is up there with the best. Impossibly tough men risking life and limb in pursuit of a pay cheque,glory or the rights to look all stoic and faraway when standing next to a vast truck. Well brace yourself, says the pumped-up, and gravelly voiceover of Truffle Wars because now “a secret world of foraging has been unearthed!”. Yearghhh!In Oregon,where black truffles grow, they’re suffering the worst drought in truffling history. Men such as Richey, or Justin and Terry,who make their livings from these stinky lil’ black diamonds, have only a 10-week window in which to find and rake up the delicacy, or competition is fierce. final year,Richey found a dead body dumped on his patch. (No one knows who did it, or why, or whether he was a truffle-botherer at all,or just one of the weed growers and meth cookers that share the forest.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com