Arrest that Dog! And Life through Rosé-Tinted Spectacles Summary and Analysis

A friend from London sends Mayle an article about a gang of hoodlums who took inferior white Italian truffles, dyed them with a walnut stain to make them look like dark French truffles and sold them at the going price for the real thing to of all people, a Frenchman! Mayle contacts Alain about his truffles and truffle-hunting pig only to learn that the pig had failed as a hunter and that Alain had very few truffles for sale due to the drought. Mayle meets Alain in a cafe in Apt to buy some of his truffles. While in town, Alain will be looking at a truffle hunting dog that he may eventually purchase. The dog would have to be field tested before Alain would...