Finnocchio

Finnocchio (Florence fennel), p. 367

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It is pleasing to note an increased interest in Finnocchio or Florence Fennel excellent as a salad and very good cooked or served naturally like celery.

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1936, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, Herbs and Herb Gardening (Medici Society), page 93⁽¹⁺²⁾ ⁽¹⁾ Sweet Fennel (Fœniculum dulce) or Finnocchio, still one of the most popular vegetables in Italy, was apparently introduced into this country in early Stuart times. ⁽²⁾ Our native Fennel thrives in any soil, but Finnocchio needs a rich moist soil, frequent watering in times of drought, and when the bases of the stems swell they have to be partially earthed up, i.e. the tubers half covered.

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1943, Jo Pagano, Golden Wedding (Random House), pages 84⁽¹⁾ and 268⁽²⁾ ⁽¹⁾ There were bowls of dried olives, swimming in olive oil and flavored with garlic and orange peel; there was celery, and sweetly aromatic finnocchio, and wafer thin Italian ham. ⁽²⁾ This was a big room, and my mother’s pride. It opened directly onto the back yard, where stood the stone oven, old-country style, in which my mother, once a week, baked her bread, and where she had her own little garden of fresh spices and Italian greens — basilica, finnocchio, Italian parsley, leaf-chicory, and so on.

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