Thank you Netgalley for letting me read and review this book. This is a guide with easy recipes that can help chronic conditions, help us to be healthier overall and even live longer. I liked the photos and the recipes.

"Building on the bone broth trend, Fitzgerald and Sheppard Davenport offer a new spin. Their broths—both bone and vegetarian/vegan–are infused with nutrients that are health‑supportive. Not only do they provide recipes for easy, flavorful broths, but also add‑ins to “boost” the broths for maximum nutrition and healing benefits."

Better Broths & Healing Tonics gives the reader dietary and scientific backing for the benefits of bone, vegetable, and mushroom broths. Reading this felt empowering from an ease of integration perspective as most recipes are simple and instructions are given for various electric appliances like slow cookers and pressure cookers. There are recipes for various kinds of broth based on intended use, there are additives called "boosts" that increase the flavour profile and benefit value of the broths, and there are recipes for everything from soup to dessert, that's right, dessert. I think it's a wonderful exploration in what we perceive health and wellness looks like regarding food.

I've heard a lot lately about bone broths, tonics, etc. but not understanding the benefits, etc, I was hesitant to venture into trying them. I had heard about many health benefits.
What I loved about this book was that it wasn't just about broth....it was about add ins (which we've all seen at smoothie stores), which could help your specific health needs. No medical claims, but certainly information on how you can heal from within, without having to rely on so many medications. I also love that the authors gave vegan and vegetarian options, as well as ideas for any meal of the day. I was impressed with this one!
Thank you to Hachette Books, NetGalley and the author for an electronic ARC in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

I never realized how easy making your own broths really is! Now don’t get me wrong I won’t be using chicken feet for anything but they do give solid reasoning behind it.

Really informative and easy!

Better Broths & Healing Tonics is a tutorial guide with recipes by Dr. Kara N. Fitzgerald and Jill Sheppard Davenport aimed at increasing the nutrient density of foods we eat. Released 8th Nov 2022 by Hatchette Go, it's 256 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately.

The food we put into our bodies is the fuel which makes a profound difference in our mental and physical health. Too many people access less than ideal food over a long period of time while living with mental and physical stress and a less than ideal lifestyle. This book explains the nutritional concepts of functional "food as medicine" and provides usable recipes to support gut health and reduce inflammation. 

The book isn't veg*n specifically, but there are a large number of vegetarian and vegan friendly recipes and more importantly, the authors give alternatives to make the recipes conform to a number of special diets: keto, paleo, vegetarian, vegan, AIP, elimination, etc etc. 

The introduction is well annotated and contains an information dense (but accessible) crash course on the evidence and practice and how to use the book to increase nutritional benefits from foods we eat. 

The following chapters cover specific ingredients (berries, pepper, pumpkin seeds, rosemary, and turmeric to give a few examples), special diets, and tips for making broths. The second section of the book contain the recipes for making and using the broths. Each recipe contains a background introduction, ingredients in a bullet list, and is following by step-by-step instructions. Ingredient measures are given in imperial (American) units only. Variations for different specialized diets follow the instructions for each recipe. Nutritional information isn't included.

Four and a half stars. This is a very well written health and lifestyle cookbook. It would be a good choice for public library acquisition as well as home use. There aren't too many photos throughout, but there -are- a phenomenal number of included annotations (most with links) and resources for further reading.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Better Broths & Healing Tonics is a wonderful source of information and recipes for those who are trying to eat better and be intentional to live a healthier lifestyle. I will be buying my daughters this book as a resource to healthy eating for their families!! Thank you NetGalley and Hachette Books for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Great book to get you started with bone broths. There is tons of information in this book about the health benefits of bone broth. There are also basic bone broth recipes, and the best part for me was the inclusion of so many wonderful recipes to add bone broth. This is a great resource for people looking to improve their health with bone broth.

So I'm actually unsure on this book. I liked what I read. But unsure if I'd reread this book. Not even sure who to reccomed this to.

I've been learning more about more about broths primarily and so this was something I was really eager to dive into and read. I wasn't disappointed and I learned a lot from it.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book has some really interesting and unique broths and healing tonics. I have not seen broths like this in any other cookbook.

Two things instantly appealed to me: Broths are really the next wave in nutrition and each recipe showed what was healthful about the ingredients. Simple and easy to follow, Better Broths & Healing Tonics should be on everyone's kitchen shelves! A perfect gift.

There is information about broth recipes everywhere nowadays, and yes you can find recipes online, but nothing like what this book provides. I enjoyed the book, starting some of the sweet broth now. Lots of great information and great recipes, not just for making broth, but main and side dishes that uses the broth you made. This is one I'd like to have a physical copy of to refer to again and again.

This is an informative book with a lot of recipes for broths, drinks and recipes using broths. It's from the authors of the Younger You series with a focus on what foods help you in what ways. I appreciated the coding at the end of each recipe telling you what diets it was suitable for (vegan, keto, paleo, dairy free, etc.) and the tips on how to substitute in some cases to make it fit your needs. They give instructions for pots, slow cookers and Instant Pots, which I appreciated. My favorite part was the top of each recipe that told which ingredients helped you in which way, with specific chemicals, vitamins and amino acids mentioned instead of the vague stuff like "heart healthy."

All that said, this really felt more like a chapter that had been expanded into a book. As such, there's really no excuse to have so few photos of the recipes or to not have nutritional contents for the recipes.

The start of the book has a lot of information about what ingredients help you, then there are basic recipes for a handful of broths (bone broth, vegetable broth, etc.) and then chapters making soups, drinks, recipes, etc. with those basic broths. Some of the recipes are sweet ones like stewed apples that use the broths as bases. I can see how this would up the nutrition in a lot of recipes, especially for people who are healing their guts and immune systems. I don't know that I need a full cookbook for this though -- I'd just use homemade broths in place of the liquid in my cooking and obviously you match tastes up to what's going to work well.

I make a lot of healing drinks and broths myself, using ingredients like nettles, wild mushrooms, cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, etc. I didn't get anything new from this book but I am a lot farther on the path of using these ingredients daily for health than many people are. It will be a good resource for many folks who are looking to incorporate really healthy ingredients into their drinks and recipes.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Better Broths & Healing Tonics was informative as I have been very interested in varying broths. I did find myself wishing for more visuals though.

A sincere thank you to NetGalley and Hachette Books for providing me an advanced copy of “Better Broths & Healing Tonics” in exchange for an honest review. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to read this story and leave my review voluntarily.

Better Broths & Healing Tonics is an excellent resource that I can easily implement into my vegan lifestyle. While this is not a Vegan/Plant-Based only cookbook, there are sections dedicated to vegetable based broths and each recipe clearly marks which lifestyle/diet it would fit in (and for anyone that is used to or knows their way around substitutions many non-veg recipes can easily be converted to a plant-based option). This book was informative about the ingredients and their benefits and made that information easily accessible without it feeling like schoolwork.

Store bought broths are great in a pinch, but for a long time I have wanted to incorporate making my own to be more in control of flavors and what is going into my body. Better Broths & Tonics is descriptive and has enough information to make this doable.

The only thing that I would like to see is more pictures! I am a very visual person and I eat with my eyes first, seeing the recipes as they should look is the first thing that draws me in.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!


Beautiful clean work- tried a few of the tonics- the lavender infusion was my fave! Love finding uses for common herbs that are easily available or simple to grow. I’m expanding my own herb garden so I’d label this as beginner to intermediate skill wise for herbal lovers! Buying a physical copy soon to reference back to!