What’s the Skinny on Bone Broth?

We’re all familiar with the old adage that soup is good medicine, but lately it seems that broth, specifically bone broth, is getting all the attention. You can’t read the NY Times or turn on NPR or the television without hearing a story touting bone broth’s miraculous healing powers for skin, nails, hair and overall health. And purveyors of this “liquid gold” are popping up everywhere from NYC to Austin. So what exactly IS bone broth? Importantly, bone broth is different than stock you buy in those tidy little packages at the grocery store ­ — that kind of broth contains a lot of sodium and little else. Real bone broth is broth made with animal bones — beef, chicken, turkey, whatever — that you roast and then simmer with vegetables (and a splash of apple cider vinegar) for hours. You then strain the liquid and are left with just the broth. Those ...read the rest of the story here

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