Braised fennel was a familiar scent from my childhood. I could smell it all the way up to the third floor of our house when my mother was cooking it. That warm, slightly sweet aroma meant dinner was ...

Cookbook author Deborah Madison tells me fennel is in the carrot family. Its nicknames include bulb fennel, Florence fennel, and finocchio. Formally, it's Foeniculum vulgare var. Azoricum. Fennel, ...