I love homemade vegetable soup. My mother used to make this from time to time, and it was never often enough. I rediscovered this style of vegetable soup when I started going to old places like Tujague’s, Galatoire’s, and Maylie’s, where they used the stock from boiling briskets to make the soup.

What gives this soup a great edge is boiling all the vegetables except the carrots (which lend a nice color to the soup) separately, not in the soup itself. That way, when you add them righ