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Autumn's Arrival

image1 I've just returned from a week back east where Autumn is alive and well. The harbor has thinned out, the leaves have found rest on the ground and neighborhood chimneys are piping with evening fires. Soon it will be winter!

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The Truffle Broker

Screen Shot 2015-10-15 at 9.45.54 AM Cool piece in the WSJ about Ian Purkayastha, a 23-year-old truffle broker in NYC that supplies more than 80 percent of the Michelin star restaurants in Manhattan. At age 15, he used his savings to buy a kilo of truffles from France, closing close to $300,000 in sales his senior year in high school. This year, he is projected to earn $3 million to $4 million in sales. Forbes has also dubbed him as the "Prince of Truffles". Now that's what they call a niche market. Read on, here.

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