A Nourishing Midwinter Bowl: Mark’s Cabbage & Fennel Soup Fennel is one of those ancient plants that wandered calmly through human history, quietly improving things as it went. Native to the Mediterranean, it was treasured by the ancient Greeks and Romans not just as food, but as medicine, symbol, and superstition. The Greeks associated fennel with victory and knowledge; Roman soldiers ate it for strength, while Roman cooks used every part of the plant: bulb, stalk, leaf, and seed, toRead more