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About a decade ago, I was inexplicably talking about my love of fennel with a room full of people at a gender reveal party when one of the partygoers then blurted out “I hate finocchio!”

The fennel you buy at the market is also known as bulb fennel, Florence fennel, or finocchio, though due to its similar flavor, it sometimes gets confused with anise.

The fennel variety most commonly available today at grocery stores and farmers markets is sometimes called bulb fennel, Florence fennel or finocchio.

Pies, cakes, chestnuts, figs, persimmons, and finocchio were presented with espresso & lemon peel.

The same house-made fennel sausage amplified the anise undercurrent in a luxurious, pale green vodka and fennel cream sauce for spaghetti di finocchio.