The Don of Shrooms

Introducing a new literary genre: foodie noir. Chez Pim negotiates the shady underworld of fungus dealing to arrange a Monaco City meet with the Truffle Don, a mysterious figure who deals only in the finest white Alba truffles, and only in cash. The well-dressed Italian don, complete with driver-bodyguard and digital scale, meets with his very select clientele through proper introductions. And then you pick your truffles out of the cooler in the trunk of his late-model black Mercedes. The comical seriousness of the whole affair would make me want to look at the truffles in puzzlement, then ask the don, "Hey, I thought I was here to buy heroin." But at €200 for 100 grams of (two) truffles, the price isn't much less than heroin, though it is half the retail price for the same amount of truffleage in the gourmet shops.

The Truffle Don [Chez Pim]

Previously: Arounder City Panoramas, Taradise: Tarrarism, My Other Car is Heidi Klum, Five-Cent Lombardi’s Pizza Day!, Hot Choco Sauce Fashion