Comments on: NY Times finds North Carolina a truffling place http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2011/03/04/ny-times-finds-north-carolina-a-truffling-place/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ny-times-finds-north-carolina-a-truffling-place Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Sat, 18 May 2013 12:37:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lew Powell http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2011/03/04/ny-times-finds-north-carolina-a-truffling-place/comment-page-1/#comment-245931 Lew Powell Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:59:52 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=12842#comment-245931 So noted and thanks for the correction, Dan. My search for the “Susan Rice Alexander” cited in the Times didn’t turn up the “Susan E. Rice” of your 2010 story.

]]> By: Dan E. Way http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2011/03/04/ny-times-finds-north-carolina-a-truffling-place/comment-page-1/#comment-245886 Dan E. Way Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:37:57 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=12842#comment-245886 Before giving the NYT too much credit, you should note this is an old story reported on long ago by staff at The Chapel Hill Herald. Here’s a bit of the story from our archives:

Truffle trouble cooking
Hillsborough company sues over cultivated trees
BY BETH VELLIQUETTE
Publication Date: January 3, 2010 Page: ch1 Section: CHH
HILLSBOROUGH — In the gourmet world where a thin slice of a black truffle is said to taste so exquisite that people swoon when they eat them, there’s trouble cooking in the courthouse.

Garland Gourmet Mushrooms & Truffles, owned by Franklin and Betty Garland of Hillsborough, filed a lawsuit against Black Diamond French Truffles Inc., and its owners Susan E. Rice and Corey Rice, claiming Black Diamond failed to pay a total of $400,000 for the 20,000 truffle-growing trees the company ordered from Garland; that they disclosed proprietary information about the truffle-growing trees that Franklin Garland developed; and that they didn’t pay Garland for all the help and expertise he gave them in setting up their business.

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