Global truffle mania puts Italy’s Umbria region at the centre of a booming luxury food business

[ad_1] Open this photo in gallery: Riccardo Boresti, an employee at Gruppo Urbani Tartufi, checks a basket of white truffles from the copmany’s operation in Italy’s Umbria region.Photography by Fabrizio…

Olive oil prices soar as climate-related catastrophes shrink Mediterranean harvests – The Globe and Mail

[ad_1] Images are unavailable offline. On his small farm in Umbria, in central Italy, Fausto Venturi glides his fingers along the slender branches of one of his olive trees as…