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...heart haphazard, and the pivotal realization – that townsfolk seemingly so different nevertheless share in common a love for Winn-Dixie – falls flat. And no matter how many times director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) bridges his scenes with beautiful images of towering oak trees draped with Spanish moss and childhood picnics set against a sun-drenched palette, the film never inspires any more than a dry chuckle or a single sniffle...
...heart haphazard, and the pivotal realization – that townsfolk seemingly so different nevertheless share in common a love for Winn-Dixie – falls flat. And no matter how many times director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) bridges his scenes with beautiful images of towering oak trees draped with Spanish moss and childhood picnics set against a sun-drenched palette, the film never inspires any more than a dry chuckle or a single sniffle...
...tell that to Guy Cubaynes, a truffle harvester from the southern French town of Lalbenque, who is taking his 250-kg pig named Kiki for her first truffle hunt of the season. Cubaynes' family has been gathering truffles since the 1850s, searching for the fungi under the shade of oak trees. He says dealers in Chinese truffles have even infiltrated the center of French truffle production. Every week, Cubaynes claims, these merchants show up at the market in Lalbenque with the same number of truffles in their baskets, a suspicious constancy that normal truffle collecting does not tend to provide...
...FELLED. MARIE ANTOINETTE'S OAK, 321, tree that shaded the infamously imperious French Queen; in Versailles, France. Antoinette saved it from the chop during landscaping in 1776. The oak survived centuries of war and storms, but finally was toppled last week, 18 months after succumbing to dehydration in a heat wave...
...many foodies, white truffles might as well be gold. These clumps of fungal fruit grow in the damp crevasses beneath oak trees in only a few places on earth. They are extremely rare and cannot be cultivated. They also stir the hearts of many chefs and can cost a small fortune to purvey. If you want to see for yourself the land of the truffle hunter, then take a plane to the Italian region of Piedmont in the Langhe hills. Alba, a two-hour drive north from Milan, is considered the spiritual city of the treasure, and prime truffle time...