The international Alba White Truffle fair attracts around 100,000 visitors each year who gather in Piedmont to buy, sell and smell the expensive delicacy

A two-pound truffle just sold for almost $118,000 in Italy. The international Alba White Truffle fair attracts around 100,000 visitors each year who gather in Piedmont to buy, sell and smell the expensive delicacy pic.twitter.com/lfLUliIptS

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 15, 2021

The northwestern region of Piedmont is known as Italy’s white truffle producer.

The white tuber was bought by Michelin-starred chef Umberto Bombana who runs the “Otto e Mezzo” restaurant in Hong Kong after an auction held simultaneously in Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and Moscow.

Umberto Bombana (born 1963) is an Italian chef and co-owner of three Michelin star restaurant 8½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana.

He is hailed as the «King of White Truffles« and was appointed a «Worldwide Ambassador of the White Truffle» by the Piedmontese Regional Enoteca Cavour.

Sources: Reuters on Twitter,15/11/2021, wikipedia