Ahh, yes. You can indeed get vegetable stock at the store, but how much of that crap is just salt passing itself off as flavor? Oh, you betcha the photo in this here book more than does for the benefits of the effort, though to be sure the end of the ingredient list starts reading like some kind of damned Dr. Seuss story and I think stands for "what you have around, but boy howdy would it be nice if you had..."