Old-Fashioned Beef Stew Never Gets Old

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe New York Times has named a winner, and it is a beef stew, and I need everyone to stay calm.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMeat, onions, carrots and potatoes, simmered in red wine and beef broth, the Times says. That's a pot of comfort, Kenji, not a crisis briefing.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwenty-four million views since twenty nineteen, according to Nieman Lab. Six point seven million in twenty twenty-two alone.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThose are numbers a senator would cry over.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNineteen thousand reviews, average five stars. People liked soup, which is allowed.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Times published seven hundred recipes that year, and hardly any matched its search traffic. Seven hundred recipes got beaten by a pot.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA pot from nineteen ninety-four.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMolly O'Neill's column was called "A Simmer of Hope" back in 1994, and the stew has been charming the press office ever since.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe food editor calls it a benchmark. Every other recipe is graded against a stew.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorKenji, I'm rating that panic a seven. Good energy, no stew.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty-two years, one pound of beef, and it still outranks the entire department. It's not going anywhere. Clip it.