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A licorice ghost hiding in your sausage, your gin, and ancient marathon legends.
means The small, ridged, greenish-brown seed of the fennel plant, used as a sweet, anise-flavored spice in cooking, baking, and digestive remedies.
from From the plant fennel, whose name comes through Old English 'finugl' from Latin 'faeniculum,' a diminutive of 'faenum' meaning 'hay' — so literally 'little hay,' likely for its fine, feathery foliage and mild grassy scent. The Greek name for fennel, 'marathon,' famously lent its name to the plain of Marathon ('place of fennel'), tying the spice forever to the legendary run.
- name origin
- Marathon means fennel field in ancient Greek
- snake repellent
- Medieval gardeners believed it warded off serpents
- breath fixer
- Indian restaurants serve it candied after meals
- absinthe kin
- Anethole gives it that boozy licorice punch
- hunger trick
- Fasting monks chewed it to dull appetite
for instance
saunf in ayurvedic medicine — traditional digestive aid in ayurveda for centuries, still widely used in india for post-meal freshening