My Christmas fantasy always involves dispensing with gifts, stopping the music and replanting all those doomed trees. But there’s no way I would pass up baking cookies with ginger, doctoring eggnog ...

Also called anise seed, the spice has an intense, licorice-y flavour. An aid to digestion, it goes well with seafood and in biscotti I love the intense, licorice-y flavour of aniseed, although it's ...

Aniseed tastes like Christmas to me because I grew up in a Mexican neighborhood in Arizona where bizcochos were the real gingerbread men. Everyone’s mother baked these little diamonds, flecked with ...

Love to eat Good & Plentys? These licoricey meringues from Måurice are for you. Preheat oven to 200°. Toast 1 Tbsp. aniseed in a dry small skillet over medium heat, tossing often, until fragrant, ...

It's like a magic trick: when the first drop of chilled water hits the transparent spirit, it turns an opaque pale yellow and a heady plume of aniseed aroma rises from the glass. Under an azure sky, ...