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Smells like a lot of truffle

Barclay Prime has bought what may be the largest white truffle imported this year.

    by Michael Klein
    Published 

Love technology.

Gourmet grocer Mikuni Wild Harvest got some white Alba truffles on Monday morning via red eye from Italy, including a 500-gram monster that it says was the largest specimen to land in the States this year.

Mikuni videotaped it, posted it on YouTube, and e-mailed details to its high-end customers.

The result: Philly's Barclay Prime outbid NYC's Daniel.

For $4,100, chef Jim LoCascio has himself a lot of truffle dinners ahead of him.