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The best of the species can sell for around £10,000 a kilo. One single white aromatic piece once fetched £165,000. We’re talking, of course, about truffles. It used to be pigs which sniffed out this costly fungi. But now, specially trained dogs are favoured by the serious truffle-hunter. But beware! It’s a cut-throat business, as Dany Mitzman found out in Northern Italy. First broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent, 26 January 2017.