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...China is the world's biggest exporter of fake goods, from pirated DVDs to knockoff Birkin bags. Now add truffles to the list. To the naked eye, the Chinese black truffle, or Tuber indicum, looks virtually indistinguishable from its much-vaunted cousin, Tuber melanosporum, or the P?rigord truffle, a gastronomic delicacy that perks up winter menus with its earthy pungency. One taste, though, clears up any confusion: the Chinese variety is insipid compared with the French one. Yet over the past few years, unscrupulous dealers in Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles as P?rigord...
...French. "We saw in experiments that Tuber indicum is very dominant, competitive and aggressive," frets Gerard Chevalier, a researcher at INRA. He paints a scenario in which errant spores from imported Chinese truffles disperse into the air, contaminate the French countryside and do ecological battle with their more fragile cousin. Already, the ancient truffle terroir is being hammered by pesticides and urbanization. Two centuries ago, French black truffles were so abundant that they were cheaper than tomatoes; yet since then, the average annual harvest in the P?rigord region and beyond has declined from some 1,800 tons to 50 tons...
...years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast, my mouth would fill with saliva," he confesses. That weakness brings him a mountain of trouble, and every time fortune smiles?as when a cousin sets him up as chairman of a retail brassiere chain in the 1980s?indecisiveness betrays...
...TRIAL ANNOUNCED. For two of Saddam Hussein's top associates, ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID and BARZAN AL-TIKRITI; in Baghdad. Al-Majid, Hussein's cousin, and al-Tikriti, his half-brother, are the first of 12 senior Hussein allies in American custody to face trial. Al-Majid was implicated in poison-gas attacks against Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s, for which he was nicknamed "Chemical Ali," and al-Tikriti is alleged to have overseen the 1982 razing of a village north of Baghdad. The trials will be broadcast live worldwide this spring from Baghdad...
...Vinoth�rapie Spa and one of the finest restaurants in the area. Da Guido recently moved into the hotel's subterranean quarters--renovated, vaulted-ceiling wine cellars--from its previous home in Asti. The cooking is elegant in its simplicity. Perfectly memorable were the chunks of cardoons (a close cousin of the artichoke) punctuating a puddle of potent, artery-clogging fonduta, and the dish is covered with, you guessed it, shavings of truffles...