My first impression of this book was not good. Based on the title I was expecting a cookbook of broths and stocks. Most of this book appears to be soups. Those do use broth and stock, but that isn't the same as making your own.
The first third of the book has useful information about broth and stocks. There is some history of it and a few a bunch of recipes for various types of broth. It was a little disappointing that all of the vegetable broths contained chicken bone broth.
The rest of the book is just recipes. Most, but not all of these do use some amount of broth. I doubt I will be making anything from this book. There is not enough variety of recipes that it will be something I pick up when I am looking for a soup recipe. The broth recipes that it has are very basic. So I doubt that I would use it for that either.
The most useful thing I got from this was to try adding wine when making a broth to a flavor and as an acid to bring out more nutrients.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.
At first I was thinking, what a terrible thing for a publisher to do, to slap such a misleading title on a work, rather than, say, Broth and Stock based Soups, but oh my, that "chicken as a vegetable" just finished it. Next!
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