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fennel seed

One spice, opposite ends of the meal, in cuisines that never coordinated.

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Cultural layer

Origin

The Mediterranean and West Asia; the dried seed of the fennel plant, anise-sweet, used from Italian sausage to Indian mukhwas

Routes

Carried east and west from the Mediterranean in antiquity; in South Asia it became the after-meal digestive chewed by the spoonful

Context

The same seed ends an Indian meal and starts an Italian sausage. Mukhwas is offered at the door of a restaurant as a digestive and a breath freshener, a course with no food in it; Italian cooking grinds the same seed into pork at the beginning. One spice, opposite ends of the meal, in cuisines that never coordinated.

Route

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