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NY Post
New York Post
10 Jul 2023


NextImg:New Yorker cooks communal ‘medieval’ stew for 33 days — and counting 

A TikToker is going viral and meeting new friends while cooking a communal “perpetual stew.”

Annie Rauwerda runs the popular TikTok, Instagram and Twitter accounts all titled “Depths of Wikipedia,” where she highlights strange, obscure and fascinating facts and pages from the online encyclopedia (her accounts also have a Wikipedia page).

However, her accounts have also now become a way for her to document her 33-day-old soup.

In June, Rauwerda posted a TikTok video tagging this sweaty season “perpetual stew summer.”

The video was cut with a screengrab of a Wikipedia page explaining that “perpetual stew also known as forever soup, hunter’s pot or hunter’s stew, is a pot into which whatever foodstuffs one can find is placed and cooked.

“The pot is never or rarely emptied all the way, and ingredients and liquid are replenished as necessary. Such foods can continue cooking for decades or longer, if properly maintained.”

Rauwerda told her followers that she’s always wanted to concoct one and began simmering potato leek in her Crock-Pot at 200 degrees Fahrenheit on June 7. She planned to keep it cooking for at least five days — it’s been 33.

Rauwerda began simmering potato leek soup in her Crock-Pot at 200 degrees Fahrenheit on June 7.
TikTok / depthsofwikipedia

Annie Rauwerda serving stew in the park

She’s now been cooking the meal for over thirty days and has hosted several events in Brooklyn where people have contributed ingredidents and enjoyed the stew together.
TikTok / depthsofwikipedia

Daily updates of the stew, instructions on how to RSVP to the next event (at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 11 at Fermi Playground in Brooklyn) and frequently asked questions are all shared on an official website.

She’s continued to update viewers, with videos every few days documenting the different vegan ingredients her friends have added to the stew. Rauwerda also put out a call to “stew-dents” near Bushwick to join the stew crew.

About 50 people attended her first event and no one seemed to think the ludicrous idea was “stew-pid;” instead many New Yorkers claimed the gathering and the grub was “stew-pendous.”

The Sunday stews have continued for several weeks as people gather in a Brooklyn park to add their ingredients to the caulderon and join the “stew-mmunity.”

The project has grown so popular Rauwerda claims she’s even been recognized in the grocery store as “stew girl.”

The guest of honor Stu

A person named Stu came to the event about a month into the broth being boiled and was welcomed as the guest of honor.
TikTok / depthsofwikipedia

In the initial weeks of the stewing, Rauwerda searched for someone named Stu, Stew or even Sue to come and be welcomed as the guest of honor. In a TikTok video, she shared that she finally found her person 30 days into cooking the forever soup.

A person named Stu came to the event about a month into the broth being boiled and shared how they had grown being teased, hating their name for most of their life and really appreciated being honored.

“I love being Stu,” the person said in one of Rauwerda’s TikTok updates.