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☆ Kim Kardashian is investing in the maker of truffle-infused condiments
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Kim Kardashian’s private equity firm has announced its first investment: A company that makes truffle-infused sauces that sell for about $20 a bottle. SKKY Partners, the company she formed last year with a former executive at Carlyle Group, has acquired a “significant minority stake” in Truff sauces. The six-year-old brand has recently grown in popularity for its condiments that extends from hot sauce to mayonnaise. The sauce brand has recently had high-profile collaborations with Taco Bell for a custom hot sauce and Hidden Valley for a special dressing. Skims, her underwear and apparel brand, recently launched a line for men.

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☆ Why Mexican Corn Fungus, or Huitlacoche, Is so Expensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Irene Anna Kim | Sarah Elkasaby | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Huitlacoche, also known as the "Mexican truffle," is an edible fungus that forms on undeveloped corn ears and sells for as much as $40 a pound. Discovered by the Aztecs, the bulbous fungus has been consumed in Mexico for centuries and has recently become a popular specialty ingredient around the world. However, the US has dedicated significant time and money to keeping its cornfields free of what it calls "corn smut" and "the devil's corn." Huitlacoche forms naturally during the rainy season, but farmers can also inject the fungus into their cornfields to harvest the valuable "black gold." So, why has huitlacoche become so popular, and what exactly makes it so expensive?

Organizations: Aztecs Locations: Mexico

☆ I'm a trained chef working towards a hospitality career in Miami. Cooking is all about creating an experience — and faking it 'til you make it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Alyshia Hull | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Karen Rosenbloom is a trained chef who says culinary school was the best decision she's ever made. She's now studying journalism and has a goal to become a private chef who develops recipes. I applied for culinary school in 2018I was accepted and started in Johnson & Wales University's culinary arts program in Providence, Rhode Island, that August. AdvertisementI decided to try private chef workI found a private chef in the Miami area, and began to work under his mentorship in June 2020, which counted as my internship. This gave me an introduction to the world of being a private chef, and I loved it.

Persons: Karen Rosenbloom, she's, She's, —, I've, I'd, I'm, it's Organizations: Service, Food Network, Johnson & Wales, Brown University, Brown, Columbia University Locations: Miami, Johnson, Providence , Rhode Island

☆ ‘The Climate’s No Good’: The Hunt for White Truffles Gets Pricier
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Bernhard Warner | More About Bernhard Warner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For nearly three hours, their olfactory senses were on high alert for white truffles, a delicacy with soaring prices, in large part because they are under extreme threat by climate change. Gram for gram, the white truffle is one of the most expensive foods on the planet. In Italy, fresh white truffles run as high as 4,500 euros per kilogram (or nearly $2,200 per pound), according to Coldiretti, Italy’s biggest agricultural trade group. Last year, at an auction in Alba, Italy, a one-and-a-half-pound specimen fetched a record price of €184,000 (nearly $200,000). Supply constraints notwithstanding, bidders are set to converge on Alba, Italy’s truffle capital, on Sunday to do it all over again.

Persons: Primo, Scilla Locations: Amandola, Italy, Coldiretti, San Francisco, Trufflephiles, London, Dubai, Alba, Italy’s

☆ Burger King still hasn't closed its Russian restaurants 18 months after its parent company said it would
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Burger King's roughly 800 Russian restaurants remain open. Its parent company said in March 2022 it had started the process to dispose of its ownership stake. AdvertisementAdvertisementBurger King still hasn't closed its Russian restaurants, more than 18 months after parent company Restaurant Brands International said it would. Burger King's franchise restaurants in Russia are run by a joint venture partnership in which RBI has a 15% stake. Shear added that RBI had "demanded" that the main operator of Russia's Burger King restaurants stop operations, but that it "refused to do so."

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☆ Why you should be traveling to Europe in fall, not summer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Terry Ward | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

And now it’s fall, when the continent really comes into its own as the leaves – and visitor numbers – start to drop. A recent report from luxury travel network Virtuoso named Paris, London and Florence as the most booked cities for fall travel. “Fall is one of the best times to visit Europe because of the vast variety of interests [the season] can cater to,” says Mina Agnos, president of luxury travel company Travelive. If you’re ready for a different take on Europe this fall, we’ve got ideas. Fall also means it’s harvest time in Rebland – an area southwest of Baden-Baden famous for its Riesling.

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☆ Is your food safe to eat? Why your wasabi, vanilla, and honey could be fake
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Robin Lindsay | Dorian Barranco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Hate to break it to you, but your truffle oil wasn't made from truffles. Well, that's probably just a lab-made derivative of crude oil. However, there's a whole other level of trickery that's completely illegal: food fraud. That's when criminals bottle up corn syrup and call it 100% honey, or when they pass off cheap mozzarella as pure Parmigiano-Reggiano. We head around the world to uncover how producers get away with food deception and how we can spot the real stuff.

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☆ 11 of the most faked foods in the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Fraudulent foods cost legitimate producers and pose a risk to consumers, to the tune of $40 billion. Some highly prized products – like honey or caviar – are too rare or expensive to meet global demand. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. "The sort of least end of it you're getting ripped off, at the worst end you're literally getting poisoned." Here are 11 of the most faked food products, and how to spot the real thing.

Persons: Larry Olmstead Organizations: Service Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Bavarian boars may be radioactive because of truffles contaminated by nuclear weapon testing decades ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A high percentage of Germany's wild boars are radioactive while other animals in the region are not. But fallout from nuclear weapons tests decades ago may also have contaminated the truffles, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe trouble with trufflesThe likely culprit is the deer truffle, which grows underground and accumulates radioactive cesium. Wild boars root them out, especially during the colder months when other food sources are scarce. AdvertisementAdvertisementDeer truffles that are over a foot underground that nuclear weapons previously contaminated are now absorbing cesium from Chernobyl.

Persons: Bin Feng, it's, Feng, Georg Steinhauser Organizations: Service, Science, Technology, Chernobyl, The Telegraph, BBC Locations: Wall, Silicon, Germany, Ukraine, Bavaria

☆ Watch the last billion years of Earth's tectonic plate movement in just 40 seconds
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Aylin Woodward | Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years. But in 2021 a group of geologists offered up an easily digestible peek at 1 billion years of plate tectonic motion. Building a better model of Earth's platesThe Earth's plates move in a variety of ways and can cause earthquakes, mountains, and canyons. The top layer — between 5 and 50 miles thick — is the crust, which is fragmented into tectonic plates that fit together. The jigsaw puzzle of Earth's continents hasn't stopped shifting, of course.

Persons: Sabin Zahirovic, Pangea, Joshua Stevens, Dietmar Müller Organizations: Service, University of Sydney, U.S . Geological Survey, Geologists, NASA Locations: Antarctica, U.S, Sandwell, Africa, Europe

☆ Mess at Chef's Table: How claims of theft, embezzlement, and abuse shut down Brooklyn Fare's legendary Michelin-starred restaurant
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, the iconic three-Michelin-star tasting restaurant by chef César Ramirez, quietly ceased operations in July. Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare is one of New York's most hallowed culinary institutions. A former employee at Chef's Table at Brooklyn FareBut beneath the restaurant's pristine stainless-steel surface, chaos was brewing. By 2011, Chef's Table had become one of only 138 restaurants worldwide to boast three Michelin stars. This year, Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare was the highest-ranked US restaurant on the 2023 World's 50 Best Restaurants' list.

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☆ Warren Buffett hates fancy food, drives badly, and saw the housing crash coming, his biographer says in a resurfaced Reddit post
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Warren Buffett can't stand fancy food, drives badly, and spotted the mid-2000s housing bubble. He blanched at the idea of truffle sauce on his steak, and foresaw a decade of housing pain in 2004. Buffett's biographer, Alice Schroeder, shared those details in a resurfaced Reddit post from 2014. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. Alice Schroeder, the author of "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," has spent roughly 2,000 hours with the Berkshire Hathaway CEO, making her a true authority on all things Buffett.

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☆ Read the 17-page pitch deck that helped a former WME agent raise $25 million in VC to capitalize on celebrity-backed brands like Gal Gadot's mac and cheese
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read the deck he's using to raise his first venture round of $50 million. In 2018, he left Roar, the management company he started in 2003, to launch Fourward, a management, production, and investment firm. And Fourward has just announced its first VC fund, Fourward Ventures, an early-stage growth fund focused on investments in health and wellness, sustainability, and consumer packaged goods. Fourward says it's looking to companies that disrupt traditional consumer categories, drive societal change, and have celebrity tie-ins. Check out the pitch deck Fourward used to raise the first $25 million of its planned $50 million fund.

Persons: Will Ward, He's, Adam Sandler, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth, Zac Brown, Fourward, Gal Gadot, Jay, Austin Nelson, Ward, Chris Hemsworth's, Mark Bezos, there's, he's Organizations: CAA, Roar, Fourward Ventures, Marcy Venture Partners, Bryn Pharma, Corp, HighPost, Hollywood Locations: Fourward, Hollywood, Nashville, —, Centr

☆ Can ChatGPT find ‘hidden gems’ in Europe? Yes, if you use these prompts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Lisa Lucas | Evelyn Chen | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The advantage of using ChatGPT is that it can take you down any track you want. It's even possible to uncover hidden gems – if you ask the right questions. To uncover a genuine Tuscan experience, use prompts such as: "Can you recommend authentic restaurants locals love that are known for quality and flavor near Val d'Orcia, with websites and reviews?" ChatGPT understands queries about where locals like to eat, and being specific gets better results. To find "hidden gem" restaurants in Val d'Orcia, the more specific the question, the better, says travel writer Lisa Lucas.

Persons: I've, Lisa Lucas, Lisa Lucas ChatGPT, Val d'Orcia, Lanzellotto Organizations: Agf, Getty Locations: Italian, London, Tuscany, Here's, Florence, Siena, American, Elba, Pienza, d'Orcia, Val

☆ Why US Treasury Secretary Yellen’s visit to a Beijing restaurant set off a wild mushroom craze
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Maggie Wong | Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Among the dishes the food blogger claimed to have spotted were grilled fish with herbs, stir-fried pickled Yunnan wild greens with potato slices and cold rice noodles. She ordered four portions of jian shou qing (a Yunnan wild mushroom species). But the most heated discussions were focused on the multiple orders of the mushroom dish – jian shou qing. Jian shou qing, Yunnan’s mysterious mushroomsBaskets of jian shou qing mushrooms, foraged from a Yunnan forest. Chieu Luu/CNNThe fact that Yellen and her team visited a Yunnan restaurant shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Persons: Hong Kong CNN — It’s, Janet Yellen, jian shou qing, Yi Zuo Yi Wang, ”, Pan Pan Mao, ” Pan Pan Mao, Yellen, Mark Schiefelbein, Yellen’s, Jian shou qing, Colin Domnauer Jian shou qing, “, Peter Mortimer, Mortimer, Jun Xu, they’re, Luu, Dian Cai –, Ng Mung Lam, Ng, Yellen's, Leisa Tyler, LightRocket Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Weibo, CNN, Kunming Institute of Botany, African, Getty, Botanical Society of, Xinhua, CNN Travel Locations: Hong Kong, Beijing, China, Yunnan, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Weibo, India, Yunnan Province, Botanical Society of Yunnan, China’s, Shenzhen, Chuxiong prefecture, pu’er

☆ How 'Birkin Bandit' George Mickum Infiltrated NYC Society
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Kate Taylor | Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +52 min

"He would know people's weaknesses and what they wanted and somehow always have something to offer," a former close friend said. Another close friend said Mickum once gave her a $1,000 loan "within minutes" when she needed it because of a credit-card crisis. He never "let the truth get in the way of a good story," a former close friend said. Hermès bags, like the Birkin and the Kelly, have always been symbols of unattainable luxury. There wasn't even a dust bag; Mickum claimed his mom's assistant would drop it off later.

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☆ Michelin starred hotels around the world, from Italy to Vietnam
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Chris Dwyer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +24 min

Courtesy CoteArgentinian maestro Mauro Colagreco was the first ever non-French chef to earn three Michelin stars in France, at Mirazur on the famed French Riviera. Gastronomic restaurant Plénitude by chef Arnaud Donckele marked an extraordinary debut by being awarded the pinnacle of three Michelin stars just six months after opening. Since 2021, they have held three Michelin stars for their cuisine, which celebrates peerless produce from their sustainable farm just seven miles away. Lung King Heen, Four Seasons Hong KongLung King Heen was the first Chinese restaurant to hold three Michelin stars. Capella Hotels & ResortsFinally to Vietnam, where Michelin published its first ever guide in June 2023.

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☆ Where to go this summer: A dozen destination ideas
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Marnie Hunter | Jane Levere | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Peru"Peruvians are welcoming travelers back with open arms," says travel one travel expert. And perhaps most importantly, the city offers excellent value, in part because it will be the winter/low season there during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer. It’s home to three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including megalithic temples that date to the 4th millennium BC. Although summer is the rainy season, Gellis says showers are often brief and intermittent. AlbaniaAlbania is a Mediterranean gem that’s likely to be less crowded this summer than Greece and Croatia, says Joao Donadel, another EMBARK Beyond travel advisor.

☆ Japan: World's most expensive ice cream, by Cellato, costs $6,400
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Keep your hands steady: a scoop of this exquisite delight is probably going to cost more than all the ice cream you will have throughout multiple summers. Japanese ice cream brand Cellato calls white night a gelato on its website, and the name is a hint to its Italian origins. The ice cream is topped off by an edible gold leaf, two types of cheese and “Sakekasu,” a paste-like ingredient derived from the process of sake-making. The world's most expensive ice cream by Japanese maker Cellato is a conbination of luxury ingredients from Italy and Japan. They are advised to let the ice cream defrost at room temperature or microwave it at 500 watts for 10 to 20 seconds, if the texture is too hard.

☆ Ice cream flavored with white truffle and cheese scoops world record over its $6,316 price tag
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The world's most expensive ice cream is being sold for $6,316 per serving. The ice cream is made with white truffle, Parmigiano Reggiano, edible gold leaf, and sake lees. The dessert, called byakuya, has set a Guinness world record because of its eyewatering price tag. Achieving a Guinness World Records title made the effort all worth it," a Cellato company representative told Guinness World Records. Scoopi Cafe in Dubai previously served what was considered to be the most expensive ice cream in the world.

☆ This 52-year-old early retiree left the U.S. for Portugal—a look at his typical weekend: 'I spend less than $40'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Alex Trias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

On weekends when I'm out and about, I spend less than $40 a day:Start the day with coffee and breakfastPrice per person: $6.31 Lisbon is paradise for breakfast lovers. Take a train to the seashore and rent bikesPrice per person: $11.34 A one-hour train ride from Lisbon's historic Cais do Sodré station to the fishing village of Cascais costs $4.92 (round trip). We like to stop by on weekends, and it is conveniently located on the train ride back from Cascais. Our daughter loves bargain hunting at the Feira da Ladra, a popular flea market located within the Alfama district of Lisbon. Photo: Alex TriasI also enjoy the weekend flea market in Principé Real, where you'll find plenty of delicious artisanal honey, cheese and cured sausages.

☆ Shake Shack unveils fine dining-inspired white truffle menu: 'It's something nobody else could do the way we could'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

"We thought it was something that nobody else could do in the way we could do it," Shake Shack chief marketing officer Jay Livingston tells CNBC Make It. Starting Feb. 10, Shake Shack restaurants nationwide will be offering a trio of items made using white truffle: a beef burger, a mushroom burger and fries served with white truffle sauce. Shake Shack is no stranger to introducing limited edition menu items, but the burger chain's latest offering may be its most luxurious creation yet. The company worked with luxury food importer Regalis Foods to come up with a way to incorporate white truffle into its menus without asking customers to break the bank and also avoiding the artificial flavors that cheaper truffle oils use. Shake Shack will offer the menu for about three months, though Livingston noted that availability will ultimately be decided by customer demand.

They have soared in popularity over the last year, in part from social media attention and billionaires like Elon Musk touting the drugs’ weight loss effects. Ozempic is not approved for weight loss, but doctors sometimes prescribe it off-label for that purpose. Harper took Ozempic off-label for weight loss from May until November (she paused while moving to Washington state but plans to start again). For Yazeed, weight loss was not the reason she went on Ozempic, nor was it a goal. He hasn't experienced side effects or weight loss from Ozempic, he said, but he recognizes that isn't true for everyone.

☆ Truffle hunters in Italy are poisoning their competitors' dogs with snail bait in a war for the 'black gold' that goes for up to $5,000 per pound
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Truffle foragers in Italy have long sought to get rid of competition in search of "black gold." "It's all about getting rid of the competition," The Wall Street Journal reported Saverio Dogliani, a 57-year-old truffle hunter whose dog, Floki, has been poisoned twice, said. PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty ImagesThe poisoned treats claim the lives of multiple dogs and wildlife such as deer and foxes, each year. A group of truffle hunters wearing camouflage searched the area where Brando was poisoned, hoping to rid the brush of leftover poison. "It's getting worse," Agent Emanuele Gallo told The Wall Street Journal.

☆ Celebrity chef David Chang blasts Costco's famous $4.99 rotisserie chicken as 'inedible' and 'disgusting'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This week, he talked about a trip to Costco, and noted how he dislikes the chain's rotisserie chicken. "I think the Costco chicken is the worst rotisserie chicken," he said during his latest "The Dave Chang Show" podcast. He noted how the meat selections are shockingly cheap, which led to a shaming session of Costco's famed rotisserie chicken. Notably, the retailer calls its product "Seasoned Rotisserie Chicken," and "seasoning" is listed on the ingredient label. So, which supermarket has good rotisserie chicken?

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