I succumbed to the latest trend and ordered Fresh Direct, a service which many of my friends have been addicted to for over a year. Fresh Direct is a grocery delivery service where you order your items online, similar to the ones that went belly up during the dotcom crash like WebVan, but without the outrageous venture capital spending.
The convenience and food quality are excellent. The prices are the same or less than my corner grocer, except for fruit. I also enjoyed having someone else carry my things up five flights of steps. Today’s picture is the first real meal I cooked in my place and the first prepared with ingredients from Fresh Direct: baked, glazed chicken breast over cous-cous and steamed green beans. I give the Fresh Direct experience an B+. If they had more items in smaller sizes and Miracle Whip Light, they would get an A.
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