How a Texas teen became New York's premier truffle dealer

February 22, 2017 13:45

Ian Purkayastha, the twenty-four-year-old truffle wunderkind behind Regalis, tries throughout his new autobiography, "Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground,' to affix the smell of truffles to the page: "cheesy, garlicky, explosive'; "the smells of the soil and the seasons'; "the complex and elusive scent of human desire". In the chilled warehouse, the aroma floats from cardboard boxes filled with truffle jus, truffle salt, and truffle honey. Purkayastha stands at the center of it all, tall and striking in brown loafers and black jeans. He has a boy's soft face but already a half decade's worth of experience hustling this decadent product to New York's food lite. Read more

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