589214 Mon Jan 19 19:19:51 -0800 2009 9 2 Los Angeles Area 0 4340405 Where can you buy black truffles in LA? Is it possible? Mon Jan 19 19:19:51 -0800 2009 68466 vickib 1 4341313 Call the Cheese Shop in Beverly Hills. Avoid Surfas, just bought a crappy one there. Tue Jan 20 07:50:47 -0800 2009 4340405 12141 Adsvino 1 4527459 Go online. If you can get white ones. I was thinking about trying my hand at hunting for them in the SGV mountains. I already hunt certain types of mushrooms. Why not truffles? They dont just grow in Europe. Sun Mar 22 10:54:04 -0700 2009 4340405 219031 Chili 2 4527482 "I was thinking about trying my hand at hunting for them in the SGV mountains." Truffles need high ph soils, cold climate, abundant rain. None of those conditions are present in the SGV mountains. Sun Mar 22 11:05:44 -0700 2009 4527459 28703 RicRios 3 4527597 Maybe NorCal? Sun Mar 22 12:01:40 -0700 2009 4527482 219031 Chili 4 4528086 Oregon. For more info, get hold of one of the best books available on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0881928607/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books Sun Mar 22 15:26:34 -0700 2009 4527597 28703 RicRios 2 4528955 I hope you have training from an expert, Chili. Search sfgate.com for "mushrooms" paired with words like "poison," "liver transplant," "death," etc., and you'll find hair-raising tales of foraging adventures in the Bay Area. When I lived up there, a couple of visiting European mushroom gatherers picked some bad fungus nearby and were paralyzed and half-dead for a time. Sun Mar 22 23:06:51 -0700 2009 4527459 77350 sbritchky 3 4529629 Or check out last week's LA Times for a local incident. Apparently there's a lethal local mushroom that's a ringer for an edible Euro one. Mon Mar 23 08:42:07 -0700 2009 4528955 89849 Akitist 1 4528908 Oregon black are available at the Hollywood and Santa Monica farmers Market (sunday and wed.) Sun Mar 22 22:31:15 -0700 2009 4340405 122406 miwine 2 4529506 I just picked up some oregon black truffles at the saturday farmers market in santa monica. they were $20/oz. Mon Mar 23 08:07:55 -0700 2009 4528908 21052 carln