Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A white bowl of vegetable broth garnished with chopped parsley surrounded by raw vegetables - Margouillatphotos/Getty Images We ...

I buy vegetable broth almost never. It's not because I don't want to use it - there are plenty of times I'm cooking for vegetarian friends or want a mild base for a clean vegetable purée. I skip most ...

Once upon a time, stock was considered so important to cooking that the French called it fond de cuisine: the foundation. But they also considered most stockmaking the province of what the essential ...

I haven't received any direct responses to the request for lentil soup like that served at Layla's. Maybe that's a sign I should go try the popular soup for myself and try to come up with a copycat ...

To say I was not excited about this assignment would be an understatement. An NPR piece about vegetable broth? It seems like a parody — like an NPR piece about Birkenstocks or lattes or, um, knitting.