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Nourishing Broth: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World
The follow-up book to the hugely best-selling Nourishing Traditions , which has sold over 500,000 copies, this time focusing on the immense health benefits of bone broth by the founder of the popular Weston A Price Foundation.
Nourishing Broth:
An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World
Nourishing Traditions examines where the modern food industry has hurt our nutrition and health through over-processed foods and fears of animal fats. Nourishing Broth will continue the look at the culinary practices of our ancestors, and it will explain the immense health benefits of homemade bone broth due to the gelatin and collagen that is present in real bone broth (vs. broth made from powders).
Nourishing Broth will explore the science behind broth's unique combination of amino acids, minerals and cartilage compounds. Some of the benefits of such broth are: quick recovery from illness and surgery, the healing of pain and inflammation, increased energy from better digestion, lessening of allergies, recovery from Crohn's disease and a lessening of eating disorders because the fully balanced nutritional program lessens the cravings which make most diets fail. Diseases that bone broth can help heal are: Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Psoriasis, Infectious Disease, digestive disorders, even Cancer, and it can help our skin and bones stay young.
In addition, the book will serve as a handbook for various techniques for making broths-from simple chicken broth to rich, clear consomme, to shrimp shell stock. A variety of interesting stock-based recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner from throughout the world will complete the collection and help everyone get more nutrition in their diet.
Nourishing Broth:
An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World
Nourishing Traditions examines where the modern food industry has hurt our nutrition and health through over-processed foods and fears of animal fats. Nourishing Broth will continue the look at the culinary practices of our ancestors, and it will explain the immense health benefits of homemade bone broth due to the gelatin and collagen that is present in real bone broth (vs. broth made from powders).
Nourishing Broth will explore the science behind broth's unique combination of amino acids, minerals and cartilage compounds. Some of the benefits of such broth are: quick recovery from illness and surgery, the healing of pain and inflammation, increased energy from better digestion, lessening of allergies, recovery from Crohn's disease and a lessening of eating disorders because the fully balanced nutritional program lessens the cravings which make most diets fail. Diseases that bone broth can help heal are: Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, Psoriasis, Infectious Disease, digestive disorders, even Cancer, and it can help our skin and bones stay young.
In addition, the book will serve as a handbook for various techniques for making broths-from simple chicken broth to rich, clear consomme, to shrimp shell stock. A variety of interesting stock-based recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner from throughout the world will complete the collection and help everyone get more nutrition in their diet.
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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About the author
Sally Fallon Morell
38 books187 followersSally Fallon Morell is the co-founder and president of The Weston A. Price Foundation. According to the WAPF, she received a B.A. in English from Stanford University and an M.A. in English from UCLA.
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January 20, 2022
I don't remember ever using word "Important" as qualifier in my reviews, so I might as well start with it. This book is IMPORTANT. One of those essential books, right up there with the likes of Eat the Yolks, The Raw Milk Answer Book and similar.
It's about getting back to roots, to yourself and, possibly, health that you might have lost in the course of industrial revolution or by being victimized by recommendations of your general practitioner (remember the scam of so called "healthy eating pyramid"?).
The people who say that the fail of a book is that it recommends broth as a cure-it-all remedy got it all wrong. It simply lists conditions in which broth might be of some help and clearly explains why this might be, so those people obviously just skimmed the book without going into any depth. Better get to skimming those broths, you adhd sufferers. I don't remember the book mentioning your illness btw, so there you have it.
The audiobook is narrated by author herself. I enjoyed her warm, motherly voice just as I enjoy homebrew broth. I'm master chef when it comes to those, even if I do say so myself, but still, I learned some neat tricks in recipe section that work very well, and still have some left to try.
Excellent book.
It's about getting back to roots, to yourself and, possibly, health that you might have lost in the course of industrial revolution or by being victimized by recommendations of your general practitioner (remember the scam of so called "healthy eating pyramid"?).
The people who say that the fail of a book is that it recommends broth as a cure-it-all remedy got it all wrong. It simply lists conditions in which broth might be of some help and clearly explains why this might be, so those people obviously just skimmed the book without going into any depth. Better get to skimming those broths, you adhd sufferers. I don't remember the book mentioning your illness btw, so there you have it.
The audiobook is narrated by author herself. I enjoyed her warm, motherly voice just as I enjoy homebrew broth. I'm master chef when it comes to those, even if I do say so myself, but still, I learned some neat tricks in recipe section that work very well, and still have some left to try.
Excellent book.
October 13, 2014
From a historical review, to detailed science, to recipes, Nourishing Broth contains everything you could possibly ever want to know about bone broth. This book will explain to you exactly why bone broth is essential to our health, going through each of the essential nutrients found in bone broth, and will show you how bone broth has been used to cure osteoarthritis, rhematoid arthritis, scleroderma, psoriasis, heal wounds, cure infectious disease, digestive disorders, mental health issues, and even help inhibit the spread of cancer. Nourishing Broth will also go through the basic techniques for making broth including everything from picking bones to freezing and storing your broth. The stock recipes include everything from shrimp shell stock to Russian fish broth, and there are also a whole lot of delicious recipes for soups, aspics, stews, stir fries, and sauces. Nourishing Broth is perfect for someone new to making broth as well as those who want to step up their broth game and integrate it with their regular cooking. Nourishing Broth comes with my high recommendation.
January 20, 2015
I have mixed feelings about this one. It makes a lot of really big claims, and references a lot of really interesting sounding studies. I already knew a fair chunk of her less extreme info. I kind of want to get a copy for my reference library to follow up on a number of the studies she mentions. (I read a library copy.)
I'm not entirely sure she understands the studies she mentions though.... I can't put my finger on what's twigging me as wrong. Whether it's just that the info is so dramatic that it's new to me, or that she doesn't relay it that well and is coming across as a bit of a I BELIEVE EVERYTHING I READ ON THE INTERNET wingnut, or that she really doesn't understand some of what she's referencing, or maybe it's just that she's the head of the Weston A Price Foundation and the apologist nature of the book is just a little too loud at times. That said, definitely worth reading, possibly worth owning. Haven't decided the latter yet.
I'm not entirely sure she understands the studies she mentions though.... I can't put my finger on what's twigging me as wrong. Whether it's just that the info is so dramatic that it's new to me, or that she doesn't relay it that well and is coming across as a bit of a I BELIEVE EVERYTHING I READ ON THE INTERNET wingnut, or that she really doesn't understand some of what she's referencing, or maybe it's just that she's the head of the Weston A Price Foundation and the apologist nature of the book is just a little too loud at times. That said, definitely worth reading, possibly worth owning. Haven't decided the latter yet.
February 2, 2022
This book is dangerously irresponsible. The full first half of this book is dedicated to promoting broth as a cure-all for any kind of ailment you have: arthritis, skin conditions, wounds (including broken bones), infectious diseases, digestive disorders, cancer, mental health illnesses, sports performance issues, and aging. The book is co-authored by the "broth expert" and a nutritionist with a phD who studies broth's effects clinically. I have not the time or training to go through each claim the book makes individually, but it appears to me to be a hodgepodge of solid scientific facts, overblown claims about the health benefits of broth, pseudoscience, and fanatical testimonials. It's this cocktail that I think makes the book truly damaging.
From my understanding, there is indeed solid scientific evidence that chicken broth has some anti-inflammatory properties. But that kind of science is put on the same level as claims that research shows that cartilage stops the spread of cancer and that also broth that is made from cartilage also slows down cancer (neither of which are proven to any acceptable standard). And because these claims are side by side it makes it incredibly difficult to sort out what is truth and what is conjecture.
Throughout these chapters, there are also many inset testimonials from various people claiming that broth has cured them or their loved ones. One woman "credits" bone broth with regrowing the enamel back onto her front right incisor after being a vegetarian for twelve years. Another woman says that her son-in-law broke his back in two places, and the daily drinking of lovingly prepared broths reduced his healing time from over 3 months to just 2 months --- "the medical professionals were astounded with how quickly he healed"! Another person claimed that drinking broth every day cured their Crohn's disease in just a year. These sprinkled-in testimonials all contribute to painting the picture of broth as this miracle cure that doctors don't want you to know about, as the text says, because there's no money to be made by doctors and big pharma in peddling soup broth as a cure.
This is a lesser quibble about the text because most of it is just so bad in a different way, but the first couple chapters are also heavily laden with hinted racism, blaming MSG for the degradation of traditionally made, nourishing broth by becoming a huge staple in prepackaged broths, which are heavily used in the US. The authors are careful to say that the science is inconclusive about to what extent (if any) MSG is actually harmful, but are quick to say that its use is responsible for the poor health of all the US. Then later East Asia is both lauded by the text for their soup drinking and also accused of stealing America's good chicken feet? ("Ever wonder why you can't purchase chicken feet in American supermarkets? It's because virtually all the feet from American industrial poultry production are shipped to China, where they go into the pot to make soup." Which isn't technically incorrect, but is definitely a mischaracterization about the cause and effect of it being difficult to buy chicken feet in mainstream US grocery stores --- Americans haven't wanted to buy them, so the chicken farmers have had to find other markets for them.) There's this heavy both fear and mystical reverence for "the Orient" in this opening section that sits ill with me.
Truly I am baffled by the fact that everywhere I look this book is regarded as the canon text of broth cooking, when it is so heavily full and focused on broth as an alternative medicine. Food is important for your body, but it isn't a medicine that will cure your every ailment. Cure-alls generally cure nothing. I'm very disappointed in this book and will be looking for my broth cooking tips elsewhere.
From my understanding, there is indeed solid scientific evidence that chicken broth has some anti-inflammatory properties. But that kind of science is put on the same level as claims that research shows that cartilage stops the spread of cancer and that also broth that is made from cartilage also slows down cancer (neither of which are proven to any acceptable standard). And because these claims are side by side it makes it incredibly difficult to sort out what is truth and what is conjecture.
Throughout these chapters, there are also many inset testimonials from various people claiming that broth has cured them or their loved ones. One woman "credits" bone broth with regrowing the enamel back onto her front right incisor after being a vegetarian for twelve years. Another woman says that her son-in-law broke his back in two places, and the daily drinking of lovingly prepared broths reduced his healing time from over 3 months to just 2 months --- "the medical professionals were astounded with how quickly he healed"! Another person claimed that drinking broth every day cured their Crohn's disease in just a year. These sprinkled-in testimonials all contribute to painting the picture of broth as this miracle cure that doctors don't want you to know about, as the text says, because there's no money to be made by doctors and big pharma in peddling soup broth as a cure.
This is a lesser quibble about the text because most of it is just so bad in a different way, but the first couple chapters are also heavily laden with hinted racism, blaming MSG for the degradation of traditionally made, nourishing broth by becoming a huge staple in prepackaged broths, which are heavily used in the US. The authors are careful to say that the science is inconclusive about to what extent (if any) MSG is actually harmful, but are quick to say that its use is responsible for the poor health of all the US. Then later East Asia is both lauded by the text for their soup drinking and also accused of stealing America's good chicken feet? ("Ever wonder why you can't purchase chicken feet in American supermarkets? It's because virtually all the feet from American industrial poultry production are shipped to China, where they go into the pot to make soup." Which isn't technically incorrect, but is definitely a mischaracterization about the cause and effect of it being difficult to buy chicken feet in mainstream US grocery stores --- Americans haven't wanted to buy them, so the chicken farmers have had to find other markets for them.) There's this heavy both fear and mystical reverence for "the Orient" in this opening section that sits ill with me.
Truly I am baffled by the fact that everywhere I look this book is regarded as the canon text of broth cooking, when it is so heavily full and focused on broth as an alternative medicine. Food is important for your body, but it isn't a medicine that will cure your every ailment. Cure-alls generally cure nothing. I'm very disappointed in this book and will be looking for my broth cooking tips elsewhere.
December 11, 2014
I won this free book through Goodreads First - reads. A very clear and understandable book, emphasizing the importance of bone broth in the human diet for the relief of many diseases and ailments. Many recipes for stock, soup, stews and sauces are included. I love this book.
January 23, 2020
Anything and more you ever wanted to know about broth and its uses.
I am not at all surprised at the essential health benefits of authentic broth. It is almost intuitive. Anyone who grew up with authentic traditional cooking, such as soups, stews, and gravies made from this fabulous aromatic elixir recognizes how indispensable broth is in healthy cooking.
The first part of the book (the rest is recipes) goes into detail on the different health benefits of broth. What, if any, research has been done, and as a rule is totally ignored today by school medicine. Sally Fallon Morell is careful not to make broth out as a cure-all to skin ailments, autoimmune disorders, speedy recovery from surgery, etc. etc., but there is enough there to establish preventative and healing properties. What dismayed me is how much healing potential we are not researching because from a money-making perspective the humble broth just doesn't pay. What is explored are individual components, such as glucosamine - which then can be synthetically produced and marketed - but not how all the myriad of nutrients in broth are working in concert, keeping us healthy with no harmful side-effects.
I am not at all surprised at the essential health benefits of authentic broth. It is almost intuitive. Anyone who grew up with authentic traditional cooking, such as soups, stews, and gravies made from this fabulous aromatic elixir recognizes how indispensable broth is in healthy cooking.
The first part of the book (the rest is recipes) goes into detail on the different health benefits of broth. What, if any, research has been done, and as a rule is totally ignored today by school medicine. Sally Fallon Morell is careful not to make broth out as a cure-all to skin ailments, autoimmune disorders, speedy recovery from surgery, etc. etc., but there is enough there to establish preventative and healing properties. What dismayed me is how much healing potential we are not researching because from a money-making perspective the humble broth just doesn't pay. What is explored are individual components, such as glucosamine - which then can be synthetically produced and marketed - but not how all the myriad of nutrients in broth are working in concert, keeping us healthy with no harmful side-effects.
June 29, 2015
~This is a First Reads review~
Unless you have a deep and abiding love for bone broth or gelatin or deeply believe that bone broth can help solve some major health problems I'm not sure why you would read this book.
The science in the first two parts is iffy. Morell is not clear on how she reached some of her more complex claims based on some of the very basic science that she talks about. There are not nearly enough citations considering the number of claims she makes, though she is forthright about the fact that almost no studies have been done to prove the efficacy of bone broths. I'm also leery of the fact she has included anecdotes and testimonials by individuals on the power of bone broths in a section that is otherwise dedicated to scientific fact.
The recipes themselves do not stand out as remarkable and could easily be found on the Internet in this day and age. I'll be donating this book to my library's book sale; maybe somebody else will more out of it than I did.
Unless you have a deep and abiding love for bone broth or gelatin or deeply believe that bone broth can help solve some major health problems I'm not sure why you would read this book.
The science in the first two parts is iffy. Morell is not clear on how she reached some of her more complex claims based on some of the very basic science that she talks about. There are not nearly enough citations considering the number of claims she makes, though she is forthright about the fact that almost no studies have been done to prove the efficacy of bone broths. I'm also leery of the fact she has included anecdotes and testimonials by individuals on the power of bone broths in a section that is otherwise dedicated to scientific fact.
The recipes themselves do not stand out as remarkable and could easily be found on the Internet in this day and age. I'll be donating this book to my library's book sale; maybe somebody else will more out of it than I did.
February 11, 2015
No need to buy this one -- here's the summary: broth is good for you, on a number of levels. It rehashed much of the Nourishing Traditions chapters on broth.
July 30, 2023
Добро и подробно (даже май прекалено подробно) описание на това защо бульоните и по-специално животинските бульони от кости са полезни за човешкото здраве и как лекуват много болести със съдържащите се в тях полезни вещества и витамини, които липсват в диетата на средностатистическия човек (и особено американец) който се храни главно с боклуци.
Авторката е хванала добрата формула, напипала е правилната ниша и таргет аудитория и вади книги по калъп на конвейр. Така или иначе, ако се интересуваш от темата, тия неща вече ги знаеш горе долу, но не пречи да преговориш.
За който не му се занимава, потърсете как се прави bone broth и го яжте/пийте колкото ви се занимава по-често щото наистина е як. Вероятно не толкова як, че да прочетете 400 стр. за него но все пак...
Авторката е хванала добрата формула, напипала е правилната ниша и таргет аудитория и вади книги по калъп на конвейр. Така или иначе, ако се интересуваш от темата, тия неща вече ги знаеш горе долу, но не пречи да преговориш.
За който не му се занимава, потърсете как се прави bone broth и го яжте/пийте колкото ви се занимава по-често щото наистина е як. Вероятно не толкова як, че да прочетете 400 стр. за него но все пак...
April 7, 2023
Great book with lots of information on what good bone broth can do for those of us with joint pain and autoimmune issues. The book of the book has several different broth recipes and cooking methods.
May 19, 2024
I’ve learned so much from this book and I plan to read it again and again as I learn to make my own broth! This has a wealth of information.
May 9, 2018
I mostly skimmed this book to glean some ideas on how to improve my broth cooking. The first half is the science behind all of the benefits of consuming broth and some history too. The second half was useful for me, in seeing how they modify some of the basic recipes to make different types of soups and stews etc. I’d like to revisit this book in a little while.
December 28, 2014
Amazing book! Thanks to this book I incorporate more broth to my life again :)
January 10, 2015
Excellent information and recipes about the healthy benefits derived from making, drinking and eating your own bone broths!
March 19, 2015
Game changing. Life healing. Flavor enhancing. Read it.
February 21, 2017
Sally Fallon never ceases to amaze me. I really enjoy her conversational, yet direct writing style. It often feels like you're sitting with an old friend who happens to be an expert on all things traditional foods. In addition, she knows her stuff in regards to medical journals and studies.
Long story short, broth is an amazing superfood that has been healing/sustaining/nourishing people for millennia! No wonder we all want mama's chicken soup when we feel down and out. The body craves that hearty, nourishing foodstuff that is broth. Glowing skin, healthy cells, strong bones--all come from homemade broth.
Each chapter is a case for a different ailment/deficiency/disease, all possibly healed/nourished back towards health with broth. As always (with her), very well cited. I especially loved all of the stories/trials of Dr. Prudden who did a great deal of work in the field of collagen. The chapter on scleroderma was fascinating! Much should be explored on this topic.
Two thumbs up! :) Highly recommend reading. Would definitely start with "Nourishing Traditions" first, though, if you haven't read it.
Long story short, broth is an amazing superfood that has been healing/sustaining/nourishing people for millennia! No wonder we all want mama's chicken soup when we feel down and out. The body craves that hearty, nourishing foodstuff that is broth. Glowing skin, healthy cells, strong bones--all come from homemade broth.
Each chapter is a case for a different ailment/deficiency/disease, all possibly healed/nourished back towards health with broth. As always (with her), very well cited. I especially loved all of the stories/trials of Dr. Prudden who did a great deal of work in the field of collagen. The chapter on scleroderma was fascinating! Much should be explored on this topic.
Two thumbs up! :) Highly recommend reading. Would definitely start with "Nourishing Traditions" first, though, if you haven't read it.
January 6, 2020
Partly exposition of the science of broth (composition, role of the components in diet); part a detailing of health benefits of daily bone broth in the diet (for ailments from osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, skin health, wound healing, digestive disorders, immune disorders, all the way to cancer); and part recipe book (both for broth and stock, and for soups and meals made therefrom).
The health benefits are believable, but not well supported by references and literature, mostly driving from the work of a single physician: Dr John Prudden. There are a lot of anecdotes, which point an interesting direction, but which are not evidence. There is a decent set of notes and sources; I will see if there is better evidence than appears at first.
The recipes look comprehensive and about right.
A useful table on page 38 (paperback) presents the amino acid components from lab analysis of long cooked and short cooked chicken bone broth - a good comparison to the listed ingredients in commercial broths. Surprisingly, there is no comparable table of other components such as collagen or minerals - the analysis in others databases is rather variable depending upon the product evaluated.
The health benefits are believable, but not well supported by references and literature, mostly driving from the work of a single physician: Dr John Prudden. There are a lot of anecdotes, which point an interesting direction, but which are not evidence. There is a decent set of notes and sources; I will see if there is better evidence than appears at first.
The recipes look comprehensive and about right.
A useful table on page 38 (paperback) presents the amino acid components from lab analysis of long cooked and short cooked chicken bone broth - a good comparison to the listed ingredients in commercial broths. Surprisingly, there is no comparable table of other components such as collagen or minerals - the analysis in others databases is rather variable depending upon the product evaluated.
November 2, 2022
I cannot believe the immense detail of nutrition in terms of embryology, biochemistry, and tissue biology that this goes into. It also cites good studies - for example a study that has shown that collagen supplementation is far more effective than vitamin D supplementation for the treatment of osteoporosis. I have read many anecdotes about people healing skin and bone disorders with bone broth. This book explains the exact mechanism and everything makes sense put together! What’s more is it’s a traditional cooking method that was commonly practiced before convenience foods became the norm. Moreover it is zero waste as well - like our ancestors used to live. The food industry has really ruined people's lives.
January 19, 2023
I have yet to make the recipes (which I hope to do as soon as possible, possibly I will make one tonight…) but I finally read it! I am now about halfway through my January goal! I highly recommend this book! I don’t agree with everything in the book like the references to evolution and I don’t think unclean (biblically) foods should be eaten. However I knew that there would be some of that and mostly that viewpoint doesn’t distort or damage the information given. I learned a lot and I am eager to apply the information!
December 7, 2024
Broth heals everything!
Here’s the science why, conversational history, and how it helps!
Most modern soups, store bought “broth”, and bouillon have no real broth (just broth flavor) therefore no real nutrition.
Easy fix!
She teaches us:
A. What to look for when buying real broth.
B. How to make broth ourselves with easy, tasty, nutritious recipes!
A soothing, pleasant read!
Here’s the science why, conversational history, and how it helps!
Most modern soups, store bought “broth”, and bouillon have no real broth (just broth flavor) therefore no real nutrition.
Easy fix!
She teaches us:
A. What to look for when buying real broth.
B. How to make broth ourselves with easy, tasty, nutritious recipes!
A soothing, pleasant read!
May 31, 2017
Excellent, encouraging, detailed, and full of practical information and inspiration. Just reading this book made me feel good. Still, in terms of practical broth preparation, there is not much new here.
April 14, 2020
DNF at 43% of the audiobook. I found the content very repetitive, dry, and listening to constant statistics gets old quickly. I was hoping for more cultural history, recipes, or tips for people to make and use broths.
January 9, 2022
Everyone should read this book! I was already convinced of the benefits of broth, but reading this has made me even more convinced that broth is magical and healing. Such good recipes and lots of detail about making and consuming broth!
January 19, 2022
This is a very useful and helpful book. I had never made broth or stock before and this book explains what, how and why to do it, along with lots of great recipes. I love making chicken stock now, and try to always have it on hand. It's so much better tasting than the kind from the grocery store!
October 7, 2023
Excellent summary of what is "inside" the broth, how to cook it why it works. As all "Nourishing" books of Sally Fallon and coauthors it gives a lot of examples of why there is no good substitute for food! Food can be a medicine, and nourishing broth is a medicine.
March 24, 2017
Very good. It's great to learn about things that have been around forever and I have no idea aoubt!
November 17, 2018
Glutamine supports liver health and detoxification. Soup is frequently prescribed for weight loss. While it fills you up, research indicates that glutamine also plays a role in...
May 19, 2019
I’m converted! Will start making my own broth. Lots of ideas and recipes. Would recommend to anyone wanting to heal their gut.
January 11, 2020
Well written. A bit repetitive. Makes a solid case for why broth is a necessary part of a healthy diet. Definitely worth reading.
December 16, 2020
More recipes than I wanted but hopefully knowing more about the science of broth helps me make it a habit in 2021
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