Many Italian recipes call for a good brodo, or broth.
It is the main ingredient in zuppa, soup, or in the general category of minestra, soups that have additional ingredients, the most famous being the hearty soup minestrone. Brodo can be made with all chicken, as it in my Basic Chicken Stock Recipe, with all beef, or with beef and chicken together. Beef is sometimes referred to as brown stock, and chicken as white stock. The Basic Chicken Stock is the broth I use the most and the one I remember Mom always having on hand. Pot of it always seemed to be cooking on the stove, and Dad, being a pretty good cook, would add his person touch to the brewing brodo when Mom wasn't looking.