[Sca-cooks] Not about mooses at all

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> 2) She has never seen fennel that wasn't seed, and the person at the
> grocery store told her anise was the same thing. Sigh. I think we might
> have to have a field trip to my local supermarket for ingredients. [I am
> getting a very strong urge to say something about not being in Kansas
> anymore, seeing as that's where she's from...]

Note that due to some hallucinatory influence on produce suppliers (I
strongly suspect either a bad Spanish-English dictionary or a bad
German-English dictionary), in many places that should know better fennel
bulb is being marketed as anise bulb or anise root.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
"Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."