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Article: Big white truffle to be auctioned for charity in Italy
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- November 27, 2007
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An usually heavy white truffle, dug up in Tuscany by a truffle-sniffing dog, will be auctioned off this week in Florence for charity.
Truffle hunter Cristiano Savini said Tuesday that he was searching for truffles with his father and dog Rocco last week in Palaia, a town about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Pisa, when the dog started sniffing "like crazy."
With Rocco leashed to a tree to prevent him from digging too furiously, the Savinis carefully extracted a truffle they said weighed 1.497 kilograms (about 3.3 pounds), which they contended was a record weight.
Guinness World Records lists a 1.3-kilogram (2.86-pound) white truffle found in Croatia in 1999 as ...