UPDATE: We learn in the Tablespotting forum (via Gothamist) that Tyler Gray has been having a hard go of selling the White Beast of Alba.

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From an email this morning from foraging guru Tyler Gray of Mikuni Wild Harvest:

You’ll have to excuse the blurry picture, it was taken not 2 hrs ago by a very excited Italian gentleman named Francesco the Forager…He stumbled/sprinted out of the forest mid afternoon in a haze of deliria and joy, grasping tightly to his most precious find ever…a 2LB WHITE ALBA TRUFFLE…

2.15 lbs to be exact & by far the largest White Truffle to land in the USA in the last 3 year. Francesco said that he has never ever found a truffle by this tree before, but he could smell it under ground & so he thought it might be big….he was very pleasantly surprised….I think my hands might be shaking too if I were to stumble across this rare treasure.

After much negotiating and an over-caffeinated Italian interpreter sweating us through the whole deal…it is confirmed, Mikuni Wild Harvest has secured this Truffle. The news has some how leaked and a restaurant in NY has offered us $11,000 for this rare and media-friendly Gem….however we are opening this Truffle up to the rest of the country. Do you want to stick it to the big name NY Chefs? Now’s your chance….make a bid.

The Truffle arrives Friday morning and will ship out for a Saturday delivery.

Best,

Tyler Gray

May the deepest pockets win. My mouth still tastes like white alba truffles from my many meals up at Cornucopia last weekend (video), so I’m good for now.