Seafood Soup Amalfi-Style

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus high-quality extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
• 5 garlic cloves
• 1 fennel bulb, coarsely chopped
• 1 small leek, washed well and coarsely chopped
• 1 stalk celery, coarsely chopped
• sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 4 fresh roma or canned san marzano tomatoes, halved
• 3 cups canned san marzano tomatoes and their juice
• 1 cup white wine
• 1 cup ricard (or other anise liqueur)
• 2 sprigs parsley
• 2 sprigs thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns
• 2 pounds fish bones, cleaned
• 1 pound assorted fresh fish fillets (cod, bass, flounder, salmon, grouper, cut into 2-inch pieces)
• chopped parsley, for garnish