The jarringly early arrival of pumpkin spice-flavored everything means one thing and one thing only: Our palates are doomed. (Just kidding ... kind of.) The arrival of pumpkin spice in lattes, muffins ...

Have you ever come across a vegetable in the supermarket and wondered just what to do with it? For instance, fennel is one of those items that's often overlooked. With its bulb-like base, long stalks, ...

I have often been asked, how do you cook fennel? I recently spent a week in a rental house in Umbria. We ate lunch out every day, but in the evening we would come home, and I would go into the little ...

Bulb fennel can be sown from April onwards, but those sown in May are less prone to flowering prematurelyPhotograph: Arterra Picture Library/Alamy Bulb fennel – AKA Florence fennel – is notoriously ...

Fennel often belonging to the "grossly underutilized vegetables" tab, and it deserves much more praise and attention than it gets. It's one of those plants that can be eaten almost entirely, as the ...

Learn how to use every inch of this versatile vegetable. Makenna Held, the author of Mostly French and a cooking teacher based in France, didn’t always like fennel. She found it overpowering and ...

The art of making soup was a mystery to me as a child. Though my mother cooked well and often, whenever I had a bowl of soup to nurse a cold or for a quick meal, it came from a can. (Sorry to out you ...

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If ever there was a vegetable dogged by misunderstanding, fresh fennel is it. Because while it may taste like anise and look like a bulb, it is neither. And don’t let the grocery workers who love to ...