Product Description
PURPOSE
WHAT IS IT?
Fennel pollen is the carefully harvested pollen of the fennel plant. Fennel is a flowering plant species in the carrot family whose leaves, seeds and bulb are also used in the culinary arts and herbal medicine. Fennel pollen is a super-premium aromatic because of the delicacy of harvesting it.
CULINARY GEOGRAPHY
Fennel is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely naturalized in many parts of the world. It’s especially prosperous in dry soils near bodies of water like coasts and riverbanks.
TRADITIONAL USES
- Lavender-Fennel Pollen Dressing
- My Fennilla Bean Pudding will make you swear off Jell-O's.
- Milk-based salad dressings;
- Herbal medical applications
IMPROVISATIONAL ‘RIFFS’
- Fennel Pollen Rubbed Salmon
- Tomato–Fennel Pollen Sauce
- Fennel Pollen Shortbrea
- Riff 4
THE BACKSTORY
Longfellow‘s 1842 poem “The Goblet of Life” repeatedly refers to the plant and mentions its purported ability to strengthen eyesight:
- Above the lower plants it towers,
The Fennel with its yellow flowers;
And in an earlier age than ours
Was gifted with the wondrous powers
Lost vision to restore.
AKA
- Finocchio
- μάραθον (Marathon)
Where to Find It
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