Roasted Fennel Bulb with Wild Fennel Pollen

My first exposure to fennel was not at the table but rather the first time I ever saw a movie in the theater.

Star Wars: A New Hope has a scene in which Luke Skywalker’s Aunt Beru is blending this strange, alien vegetable, and even at 6 years old, long before cooking or film writing would enter my dreamscape, I recall being fascinated with the lengths t…