illustration Truffles mushroom
White truffle mushroom world auctioned at Sotheby's New York at a price of 61.250 dollars. Truffle is excellent culinary mushrooms as a fragrant aroma.
Nonetheless, the price is still far below the expectations of the owner of mushrooms weighing 1.89 pounds, the news agency Agence France Presse (12/08/2014). Truffle of Alba variants were found in the region of Umbria, Italy, last week.
Truffle, which in Italy known as Tartufo, hunted by the fancy restaurants in the world. Sotheby's said the fungus was purchased by a restaurant owner from Taiwan who bid by telephone.
Prices opened at number 50,000 dollars. The truffle owner is a company Balestra Family of Sabatino Truffles. Director of the company in an interview with the New Haven Register said he hoped that the fungus will penetrate seven figures.
"I told everyone I want a million dollars," said Federico Balestra. Fungus was discovered by an employee of them.
Balestra family plans to donate the entire proceeds from the sale of mushrooms to several charities, including a foundation that provides free food to the poor and an organization that helps children from poor families to receive free glaucoma surgery.
The Associated Press quoted a spokesman for Sotheby's who said that despite the large size, the price is far below the truffle fungus previous sales record 417,000 US dollars in 2010, although it weighs only 1.1 kilograms.
source: The Associated Press
