Truffle foragers in Italy have long sought to get rid of competition in search of "black gold." Ruthless hunters have resorted to dropping poison-laced treats to tempt truffle-sniffing dogs. Police ...

Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, codirectors of “The Truffle Hunters,” had high hopes for one of their documentary’s festival debuts. “The dream for us was to walk down the red carpet with Birba in ...

THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS opens with a camera slowly zooming in on a wooded hill side, with trees twinged with autumn colors as bird sounds filled the air. As we get closer, we see a dog, then two, and ...

White truffles are coveted delicacies in fine cuisine, and a few ounces cost hundreds of dollars. The biggest truffles can sell for up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. A new documentary, “The ...

A steep hillside mottled green and orange; the same woods, now barren, kissed by fresh snow; a bounty of fresh tomatoes splayed across a rustic table. These are just a few of the picturesque scenes ...

You’ve got to love a movie that credits its dogs before it does its executive producers. “The Truffle Hunters,” Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s exquisitely charming documentary about old Italian ...

The search for the elusive white Alba truffle in northern Italy is a fragile process for everyone involved, and this documentary finds the poetry in that delicate dance. There’s a key scene in “The ...

In “The Truffle Hunters,” a delightful, arcadian documentary shot in Northern Italy, we meet several elderly Piedmontese men renowned for their skills in tracking down and digging up a delicacy that ...

What’s your go-to remedy during these stressful times? Meditation? Exercise? Screaming into a pillow? All are proven winners. But I’d suggest another: Watch “The Truffle Hunters.” Take two viewings, ...

You’ve got to love a movie that credits its dogs before it does its executive producers. “The Truffle Hunters,” Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s exquisitely charming documentary about old Italian ...

Much like caviar, the truffle began its culinary journey on the pewter plates of the working class before graduating, with cultural capital honors, to the bone china dinner plate and sophisticated ...