The difference between a good dish and a talk-about-it-years-later dish? Some say it's all in the spices. Currently, fennel pollen is having its time in the sun, and we're singing the praises of this ...

“A sprinkling of fennel pollen makes pure magic,” the Wall Street Journal declared in 2012. More than a decade before that, Peggy Knickerbocker wrote in Saveur, “If angels sprinkled a spice from their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Want to add more fennel to your diet? Chefs say the vegetable can be eaten on its own or as an ingredient in recipes. (Photo: ...

At weekly markets across central Italy, ancient town squares fill with the aromas of spit-roasted pork slathered in rosemary, fennel pollen and garlic. The enchanting smell is porchetta, a delicious ...

Slice the top off each orange and carefully slice away the skin by cutting from the top of the orange to the bottom, following the curvature of the fruit, making a half turn each time. Clean away any ...

Jim Dixon wrote about food for WW for more than 20 years, but these days most of his time is spent at his olive oil-focused specialty food business Wellspent Market. Jim’s always loved to eat, and he ...

Cook bacon until crisp; drain and chop it. Reserve bacon fat. Prepare a large bowl of ice water and set it aside, along with a slotted spoon and a plate lined with paper towels. Bring a large pot of ...

Makenna Held, the author of Mostly French and a cooking teacher based in France, didn't always like fennel. She found it overpowering and aggressively anise-forward. It wasn't until she moved to ...

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I came to love fennel by way of happenstance; it wasn't love at first bite. But through culinary school, some chance explorations of the produce aisle of my grocery store and lots of relentless ...