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  • Get To Know The Women-Led Food Brands of FreshDirect

    Get To Know The Women-Led Food Brands of FreshDirect
  • Announcing the FreshDirect Bag Donation Program

    Announcing the FreshDirect Bag Donation Program
  • Slow-Cooker Vietnamese Pork Bowls Recipe

    Slow-Cooker Vietnamese Pork Bowls Recipe
  • About Driscoll’s Sweetest Batch™ Berries, Plus a No-Bake Cheescake

    About Driscoll’s Sweetest Batch™ Berries, Plus a No-Bake Cheescake
  • How To Make A Bread Bowl

    How To Make A Bread Bowl
  • Black-Owned Food Brands On FreshDirect

    Black-Owned Food Brands On FreshDirect
  • Sweet & Spicy Sesame Chicken Wings Recipe

    Sweet & Spicy Sesame Chicken Wings Recipe
  • Classic Steakhouse Sauces

    Classic Steakhouse Sauces
  • Our Favorite Clean Eating Recipes

    Our Favorite Clean Eating Recipes
  • Turkey Chili With Pumpkin Recipe

    Turkey Chili With Pumpkin Recipe
  • The Citrus Varieties You Should Know About

    The Citrus Varieties You Should Know About
  • Stuffed Peppers With Ground Meat Recipe

    Stuffed Peppers With Ground Meat Recipe
  • Our Favorite Easy Dinner Recipes

    Our Favorite Easy Dinner Recipes
  • About the Ancient Grain Fonio, Plus a Recipe

    About the Ancient Grain Fonio, Plus a Recipe
  • Grain Bowls with Egunsi Foods Soups

    Grain Bowls with Egunsi Foods Soups
  • Discover New Vegetables With a Farm Share Box

    Discover New Vegetables With a Farm Share Box
  • Vegan Banana Bread Recipe

    Vegan Banana Bread Recipe
  • Why Shop Fair Trade Products on FreshDirect

    Why Shop Fair Trade Products on FreshDirect
  • About Sustainable Steelhead and Arctic Char From Iceland

    About Sustainable Steelhead and Arctic Char From Iceland
  • How Fairtrade Bananas Support Ethical Food Production

    How Fairtrade Bananas Support Ethical Food Production
  • Donate to New York Common Pantry & Help Fight Hunger

    Donate to New York Common Pantry & Help Fight Hunger
  • Spinach Artichoke Chicken Alfredo Baked Ziti

    Spinach Artichoke Chicken Alfredo Baked Ziti
  • Lamb Loin Roast

    Lamb Loin Roast
  • Immune Boosting Citrus Juice

    Immune Boosting Citrus Juice
  • Make This Filling Vegan Buddha Bowl for Dinner Tonight

    Make This Filling Vegan Buddha Bowl for Dinner Tonight
  • Egg-Stuffed Baked Sweet Potatoes

    Egg-Stuffed Baked Sweet Potatoes

Get To Know The Women-Led Food Brands of FreshDirect

FreshDirect is proud to be powered by women leaders, from experts on our own teams to the farmers, creators, and entrepreneurs behind many of the items we offer. This March, in honor of Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating the female food industry professionals who are crafting, innovating, and paving the way for a more equitable […]

Announcing the FreshDirect Bag Donation Program

FreshDirect is launching a pilot program to connect our customers with local community organizations that have a need for reusable bags. You are welcome to donate your used FreshDirect bags to one of our partner organizations. Please be sure that your bags are: Clean In good condition Free from labels bearing your personal information.

Vietnamese Slow Cooker Pork Bowls

Slow-Cooker Vietnamese Pork Bowls Recipe

This recipe takes its inspiration from Vietnamese-style pork, featuring a sauce with a dynamic combo of savory and sweet. We like to cook it using pork shoulder or butt in a slow cooker, which gives the meat time to become extra tender and flavorful. It’s served atop rice with crisp pickled veggies and other fun […]

About Driscoll’s Sweetest Batch™ Berries, Plus a No-Bake Cheescake

When it comes to berries, the sweeter the better, we say! FreshDirect offers Sweetest Batch™  berries from our friends at Driscoll’s. Each variety is specifically bred and grown to hit your tongue like a sugar drop, and that’s no exaggeration: when measured in brix units (the scale for measuring natural sugars in fruit) these berries […]

How To Make A Bread Bowl

When you serve your soup in a bowl made out of bread, it goes from simple to soul-soothingly satisfying in an instant. To make one, all you need to do is pick your soup, hollow out one of our sourdough boule breads, heat it up, and then get spooning! And when it’s all done, you’ll […]

Black-Owned Food Brands On FreshDirect

FreshDirect has always prided itself on supporting the growth of small, emerging, and local brands. We are committed to using our platform to give visibility and recognition to the creators, makers, and craftspeople that are creating incredible goods.

Sweet & Spicy Sesame Chicken Wings Recipe

Wings have really got everything going for them: there’s the juicy dark meat, crispy skin, and the fact that they taste good with virtually any sauce or seasonings you put on them. And while they’re delicious any time you’ve got a craving, they really are the star of the show in a munchies-filled game day […]

Classic Steakhouse Sauces

Classic steakhouse sauces will upgrade any cut of beef. They are also super easy to make—you can put them together while letting your steak rest after searing.

Our Favorite Clean Eating Recipes

Making choices that will sustain ourselves as well as the world around us feels more important than ever as we head into the new year. At FreshDirect, that means focusing on foods that are responsibly sourced and raised, made with clean ingredients, and in tune with the seasons. So as you’re considering your healthy eating […]

Turkey Chili With Pumpkin

Turkey Chili With Pumpkin Recipe

Whether you’ve got resolutions or not, January is a time for foods that are light yet hearty: ones that are fortifying enough to fight the cold temps while also helping you come down from the excesses of the holidays. To that end, we’re totally digging this recipe from the FreshDirect team for chili with a […]

The Citrus Varieties You Should Know About

Winter brings a wide range of citrus fruits, each with their own unique personality. Some bring the sweetness while others turn up the acidity, with a range of varieties in between. If all you know are your basic oranges, it’s time to get familiar with the bigger family, and to maybe even find a new […]

Stuffed Peppers With Ground Meat Recipe

Stuffed peppers are the epitome of home comfort cooking: they’re hearty, flavorful, and can be made with just a few tools and simple techniques. Whether you serve them on a weeknight or at a weekend feast, they feel special and celebratory no matter the occasion.

Our Favorite Easy Dinner Recipes

Everyone needs a few go-to weeknight dinner recipes in their back pocket. The ones that you can put together with minimal effort in very little time. We’ve collected some of our favorites in the list below. When you’re short on meal inspiration, give one of these dishes a try. You might just find a new […]

About the Ancient Grain Fonio, Plus a Recipe

Fonio is a gluten-free ancient grain that has been farmed in West Africa for thousands of years. In countries like Senegal and Nigeria, it’s a centerpiece of the local cuisines, often appearing alongside stews or folded into porridge-type dishes. Once you get to know fonio’s nutty, rich taste and pleasing, quinoa-like texture, it’s easy to […]

Egunsi Soup Recipe

Grain Bowls with Egunsi Foods Soups

One of our all-time favorite local discoveries at FreshDirect is soups from Egunsi Foods. Made in New York City, these ready-made, 100% vegan soups to bring West African flavors straight to your kitchen. Egunsi Foods uses locally-sourced ingredients wherever possible, and works with African farms for their spices and grains. From their tomato-y Obe Ata […]

Farm Share Box

Discover New Vegetables With a Farm Share Box

Scroll down for our farm share veggie bake recipe! Ordering a farm share box from FreshDirect is like hitting the produce jackpot: each box has a curated selection of seasonal vegetables delivered to you directly from the local farms where they’re grown and harvested. A farm share box gives you the benefits of joining a […]

Vegan Banana Bread Recipe

Vegan Banana Bread Recipe

Hey everyone, it’s Emerald again, food stylist at FreshDirect. If you’re looking for a rainy day recipe, this banana bread will sweeten things up—all while keeping it vegan! Here’s how to make it using just ripe fruit and some simple pantry ingredients:

FreshDirect Shop Fair Trade Items

Why Shop Fair Trade Products on FreshDirect

At FreshDirect, we believe in bringing you products for you that not only taste great, but also are made and sourced according to the highest standards. That’s because extraordinary food experiences are about more than just flavor and freshness: they’re also about recognizing the work and relationships that sustain our foodways. We support a more […]

Steelhead Salmon Crudo

About Sustainable Steelhead and Arctic Char From Iceland

Grindavik, Iceland is a small town with a 1,000-year-old fishing history. These days, it’s home to our partner Matorka, who is carrying that tradition into the future. Matorka is a leader in sustainable aquaculture, raising steelhead and arctic char using a land-based farm that leverages the purity of Iceland’s natural resources in an efficient, carbon-neutral […]

How Fairtrade Bananas Support Ethical Food Production

Supporting sustainable and ethical food production is a key part of FreshDirect’s mission. We’ve taken this another step further by partnering with Equal Exchange to be the first east coast online retailer to sell their organic, Fairtrade bananas, which are sourced from three small farmer cooperatives in Ecuador and Peru. This relationship is a new […]

New York Common Pantry FreshDirect Partnership

Donate to New York Common Pantry & Help Fight Hunger

FreshDirect is proud to announce a new charitable partnership with New York Common Pantry (NYCP). We encourage you to join us in addressing food insecurity by contributing to an organization that is at the forefront of ensuring that all New Yorkers have access to quality food and services. To help, you can select a donation in […]

Spinach Artichoke Chicken Alfredo Baked Ziti

Perfect for a weeknight dinner, this dish combines an easy homemade Alfredo sauce with chicken, mighty spinach, artichokes and pasta.

Lamb Loin Roast

FreshDirect is excited to bring you this hard-to-find boneless lamb roast. Learn how to cook one in the oven with our easy-to-follow recipe!

Immune Boosting Citrus Juice

Fight brutal winter colds and flus with this vitamin C superhero.

Make This Filling Vegan Buddha Bowl for Dinner Tonight

Save time by using pre-cut veggies and heat-and-eat quinoa to make this vegan Buddha bowl in minutes.

Egg-Stuffed Baked Sweet Potatoes

Eat them for breakfast, brunch, or dinner.

Passover and Easter Catering for the Holidays

The spring holidays are a great time to connect with tradition, especially over a festive meal that commemorates the occasion. FreshDirect offers fully-prepped meals for Passover and Easter that’ll make it easy to fill your table with delicious foods—all you have to do is heat them up! All catering meals include your choice of main […]

Totchos Are the Ultimate Game Day Grub

Move over, nachos. We’re here to tell you about a new game day snack that’s got alllll the toppings and more: totchos!

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Meet Amy and Gail Hepworth, operators of @hepworth Meet Amy and Gail Hepworth, operators of @hepworthfarms a seventh-generation family farm in Milton, NY! This women-led farm is not only behind some of the most incredible produce you’ll find, but also pioneers in the fields of sustainability and environmentally-conscious agriculture. During their peak growing months from May through late November, Hepworth Farms provides us with a huge array of vegetables including tomatoes, leafy greens, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, zucchini, roots, and squashes.

When you order any of Hepworth Farms’ produce, you know you’re getting something special that’s grown in support of achieving a better food system. The best way to try them out is by getting one of their farm share boxes, which contain an assortment featuring the very best of the season.
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