FOOD WRITERS are an excitable bunch, always in search of a culinary revelation and an excessive number of adjectives to describe it. But few gastronomic discoveries prompt such effusive descriptions as a first taste of fennel pollen. “If angels sprinkled a spice from their wings, this would be it,” declared the writer Peggy Knickerbocker in Saveur magazine back in October of 2000. Lesser poets of the palate tend to settle simply for the word “magic.”A little reassuring hyperbole might just be in order in this case.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 08, 2018 17:48 UTC