
Italian Sausage would be just plain old sausage without fennel seeds.
Chewing Fennel Seeds works as a mouth freshener.
As Fabiola mentioned in a previous post, fennel seeds (as well as the rest of the fennel plant) calm an upset tummy.
Fennel seed goes well on roast pork.
Ok, even Fabiola is getting a touch bored with fennel.
For something related (but not entirely the same).
The Perfect Pantry - has a wonderful post on the contents of a food writer's spice cupboard. She also contemplates rearranging them into catagories, the last of which is: used for embalming Pharos in aincent Egypt. Fun read! Go!