>>234536 Licorice/anise like aromatic vegetable, great raw or cooked. Use the bulb and roast or thinly shave with mandoline or slice thin for salads and slaws. Think celery for the stalks.
>>234536 we have wild fennel that grows on the hills in Northern California. You can peel the skin off the sides of dried stalks and chew on it like gum. The seeds at the top have a strong liquorice-like flavor that can add flavour
Cut the bulb up real thin along with some even thinner red onion. Feta cheese, some canned peas or white beans, olive oil, lemon juice, champagne vinegar, salt and pepper. You now have the salad most light fish wants.
I like to slice the bulb thinly and fry it in olive oil with a bit of pepper until browned. And then put it on sandwiches. (Good on a meatball sub!) I would eat it more but my grocery store rarely carries it.