If You Make Soup, You Should Be Making Stock

Is stock essential for every soup? No. Will it improve almost any soup? Yes

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Soup weather is upon us and it’s easier to make than you’d think. Even the simplest vegetable stock — an onion, a carrot, a celery stalk, a few other scraps, cooked together for 20 minutes — can make a difference in most soups. And a grand, full-flavored chicken…