Recipes for an Umbria Wild Fennel Invasion
Diffuse in the Mediterranean world – and not only – along mountainsides, roadsides and bordering fields and woods, wild fennel towers stately, gently waving in our late August breezes. The fluffy green barba (“beard”) of the springtime wild fennel has given way to long stalks topped with the seed-bearing flowers. The pungent anise-scented seeds add a…