Most folk have experienced the holistic satisfaction that comes after a good old bowl of stew, on a cold winter’s nights. However, this story tips traditional stew conventions on their head, as it’s about a Tic Tok influencer who has New Yorkers gathering in a Brooklyn park to eat ‘really old’ stew, on hot summer nights.
Annie Rauwerda runs the Twitter and Tik Toc accounts “ Depths of Wikipedia .” Last month Rauwerda posted a series of videos that went viral, based on the obscure headline: “have a perpetual stew summer.”
According to a report in the food magazine Delish, one post in particular featured the Wikipedia entry for “perpetual stew” which Rauwerda explained was also known as “hunter’s pot” or “hunter’s stew,” or by its modern, Americanized name, “forever soup”.
One day in the life of Brooklyn’s perpetual stew. Each day it is replenished with new ingredients. (Perpetualstewclub/ CC BY-ND 2.5 )
Forever Soup Served Beside Hell’s Kitchen
Essentially, hunter’s stew is a constantly simmering broth that ingredients are added to over time. An article about Annie Rauwerd’s hunter’s stew in the New York Post says these stews can “continue cooking for decades or longer, if properly maintained.” And to prove this point, Rauwerda told The Post that she began boiling a pan of potato leek soup on June 7, and it’s still simmering now, over a month later!
Rauwerda’s TikTok video has now been seen over 2 million times, and she is currently…
