The Best Jew(ish) Chicken Soup You'll Ever Eat

Ingredients

• 1 whole organic chicken
• 2 chicken carcasses
• 300 grams chicken feet
• 300 grams chicken necks
• 4 carrots, roughly chopped
• 2 onions, unpeeled quartered
• 2 heads garlic, unpeeled, halved crosswise
• 4 sticks celery (leaves on), roughly chopped
• 1 leek, roughly chopped
• 2 bunches dill, rubber band on
• 2 bunches coriander, rubber band on
• 2 bunches parsley, rubber band on (set some aside to garnish)
• 4 long stalks lemongrass, roughly chopped
• 2 knobbly fresh ginger roots, roughly chopped
• 1 cup/small pack Chinese red dates (set some aside to garnish)
• salt & white pepper to taste