The Resource The truffle underground : a tale of mystery, mayhem, and manipulation in the shadowy market of the world's most expensive fungus, Ryan Jacobs
The truffle underground : a tale of mystery, mayhem, and manipulation in the shadowy market of the world's most expensive fungus, Ryan Jacobs
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Resource Information
The item The truffle underground : a tale of mystery, mayhem, and manipulation in the shadowy market of the world's most expensive fungus, Ryan Jacobs represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- Summary
- Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft, secrecy, sabotage, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buyers and even knowledgeable experts are duped by liars and counterfeits. Deeply reported and elegantly written, this page-turning exposé documents the dark, sometimes deadly crimes at each level of the truffle's path from ground to plate, making sense of an industry that traffics in scarcity, seduction, and cash. Through it all, a question lingers: What, other than money, draws people to these dirt-covered knobs?
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vi, 279 pages
- Contents
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- Part I: The field/theft
- Black diamond bandits
- Death in the grove
- Part II: The laboratory/secrecy
- The peasant's golden secret
- A scientific mystery
- Part III: The forest/sabotage
- Disappearance of the dogs
- Poison
- Part IV: The market/deceit
- Middlemen
- Detectives and fraudsters
- The king's ascent
- The king's betrayal
- Part V: The plate/seduction
- Demanded, delivered, prepared
- Shaved
- Isbn
- 9780451495693
- Label
- The truffle underground : a tale of mystery, mayhem, and manipulation in the shadowy market of the world's most expensive fungus
- Title
- The truffle underground
- Title remainder
- a tale of mystery, mayhem, and manipulation in the shadowy market of the world's most expensive fungus
- Statement of responsibility
- Ryan Jacobs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft, secrecy, sabotage, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buyers and even knowledgeable experts are duped by liars and counterfeits. Deeply reported and elegantly written, this page-turning exposé documents the dark, sometimes deadly crimes at each level of the truffle's path from ground to plate, making sense of an industry that traffics in scarcity, seduction, and cash. Through it all, a question lingers: What, other than money, draws people to these dirt-covered knobs?
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1989-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jacobs, Ryan McMahon
- Dewey number
- 381/.4158
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HD9235.T782
- LC item number
- F833 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Truffle industry
- Truffle industry
- Truffle culture
- Smuggling
- Black market
- Label
- The truffle underground : a tale of mystery, mayhem, and manipulation in the shadowy market of the world's most expensive fungus, Ryan Jacobs
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I: The field/theft -- Black diamond bandits -- Death in the grove -- Part II: The laboratory/secrecy -- The peasant's golden secret -- A scientific mystery -- Part III: The forest/sabotage -- Disappearance of the dogs -- Poison -- Part IV: The market/deceit -- Middlemen -- Detectives and fraudsters -- The king's ascent -- The king's betrayal -- Part V: The plate/seduction -- Demanded, delivered, prepared -- Shaved
- Control code
- on1074271560
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vi, 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9780451495693
- Lccn
- 2018053998
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
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- 1337757
- (Sirsi) o1074271560
- (OCoLC)1074271560
- Label
- The truffle underground : a tale of mystery, mayhem, and manipulation in the shadowy market of the world's most expensive fungus, Ryan Jacobs
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I: The field/theft -- Black diamond bandits -- Death in the grove -- Part II: The laboratory/secrecy -- The peasant's golden secret -- A scientific mystery -- Part III: The forest/sabotage -- Disappearance of the dogs -- Poison -- Part IV: The market/deceit -- Middlemen -- Detectives and fraudsters -- The king's ascent -- The king's betrayal -- Part V: The plate/seduction -- Demanded, delivered, prepared -- Shaved
- Control code
- on1074271560
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vi, 279 pages
- Isbn
- 9780451495693
- Lccn
- 2018053998
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
-
- 1337757
- (Sirsi) o1074271560
- (OCoLC)1074271560
Library Locations
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