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What Most Cooks Don't Do, But Should

Published November 5, 2019

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I posted a short piece the other day suggesting that if you’re going to make your own soup, you should really be making your own stock. It’s mostly just a long-winded preamble to a handful of recipes (vegetable stock, mushroom stock, and fast chicken stock) that I would describe as absolutely essential for any home cook, especially now that “soup season” (or at least the time of year when hot broth is a good thing) is upon us. Those recipes are in the article below, and I hope you’ll check them out and cook them forever.

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