Caldo

Caldo.

Discover the healing power of broth for keeping bones strong, nutrition sound and the gut healthy.

It contains delicious recipes for making 10 essential meat, fish and vegetable broths, with step-by-step instructions, while noting the nutritional benefits of each one.

It includes more than 50 recipes for making soups, stews and casseroles, risottos and sauces, each one using one of the 10 essential broths as a base.

Nutritious, restorative and comforting, broth is a concentrated, nutrient-rich elixir with a magnificent, essential flavour. Combining the magic of prehistoric times with the scientifically proven nutritional benefits of the modern age, broth transcends cultures, generations and the passing of the centuries. Whether it's called caldo, bouillon or brodo, it's equally good for gut health, the immune system and the health of bones, joints and skin, while being a simple way to enjoy optimum health and wellbeing.

This groundbreaking book explains why bone broth is so healthy and nutritious, and how you can harness its benefits in your everyday diet. The delicious recipes are suited to people following a detox diet, the paleo diet, and even the 5:2 diet (especially on fasting days). All the broths, soups and stews described are easy to make and require no special skills, making them accessible and easy to follow even for less experienced cooks.

Vicki Edgson has been a nutritional therapist for more than twenty years. She now devotes her expertise to writing books and articles for many of the most prestigious health magazines, including Women’s Health, Healthy and Red, as well as several websites dedicated to health and beauty. She is one of the original founders of The Food Doctor, and has since worked with several companies in the organic food sector, including Honestly Healthy, Abel&Cole and Bounce Foods. She previously appeared on television in Fat Nation, for the BBC; Diet Doctors, for Channel Five; and earlier featured regularly on Breakfast Show and Lorraine.

Heather Thomas is a food writer and editor, and the author of several cookbooks that have gone on to become bestsellers. Her most recent book is Quick & Easy Low Calorie Cookbook. She has worked with many of the world's best chefs, companies in the slimming sector (Weight Watchers, Slimming World and Rosemary Conley Diet Clubs), as well as women's health organisations, and has published articles in numerous health and food magazines in the United Kingdom and the United States.