US$330,000 for 2 truffles
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November 29, 2010, Monday
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A CASINO mogul has paid US$330,000 for a pair of white truffles at a charity auction, matching the record price he paid at the same event three years ago for one giant tuber.
Macau billionaire Stanley Ho made the winning bid on Saturday at the auction through representatives of his company, Sociedade de Jogos de Macau.
The biggest of the two Italian truffles, dug up in central Tuscany, weighed 900 grams. The other one, from the Molise region in the south, was 400 grams.
The auction took place at Ho's Grand Lisboa hotel in Macau, with bidders participating simultaneously in Rome and London through a satellite link.
In 2007, Ho, best known for his casino monopoly in Macau, a gambling enclave in southern China near Hong Kong, paid US$330,000 for a white truffle unearthed in Tuscany weighing 1.497 kilograms.
Sixteen lots of white truffles from different areas in Italy went on the block on Saturday, raising a total of US$373,500 for charities in Macau, Britain and Italy.
White truffles are the most expensive and highly prized of Italy's truffles.
Among the most famous are truffles from Alba in the northern Piedmont region, where pigs or dogs are used to sniff them out during the September-December hunting season.
During the autumn truffle season in Italy, restaurants offer pasta and other dishes containing the fungus at sky-high prices.
Slivers of the delicacy, with its strong aroma, are prized to flavor pasta sauces and rice dishes.
Macau billionaire Stanley Ho made the winning bid on Saturday at the auction through representatives of his company, Sociedade de Jogos de Macau.
The biggest of the two Italian truffles, dug up in central Tuscany, weighed 900 grams. The other one, from the Molise region in the south, was 400 grams.
The auction took place at Ho's Grand Lisboa hotel in Macau, with bidders participating simultaneously in Rome and London through a satellite link.
In 2007, Ho, best known for his casino monopoly in Macau, a gambling enclave in southern China near Hong Kong, paid US$330,000 for a white truffle unearthed in Tuscany weighing 1.497 kilograms.
Sixteen lots of white truffles from different areas in Italy went on the block on Saturday, raising a total of US$373,500 for charities in Macau, Britain and Italy.
White truffles are the most expensive and highly prized of Italy's truffles.
Among the most famous are truffles from Alba in the northern Piedmont region, where pigs or dogs are used to sniff them out during the September-December hunting season.
During the autumn truffle season in Italy, restaurants offer pasta and other dishes containing the fungus at sky-high prices.
Slivers of the delicacy, with its strong aroma, are prized to flavor pasta sauces and rice dishes.
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