Bon Appetit from Blue Apron

When I have to fly to get to work while wearing my flight attendant uniform, I always look for the one passenger who seems like he won't want to talk to me: Bose headset, intense book, typing frantically on a computer. Those are the signs I look for. Sometimes I am right, sometimes I am wrong. 

A few days ago, I was wrong ... But I am glad I was. Turns out the guy next to me was very interesting and just as passionate about food as I am. If you have been reading my blog at all, you know food and I are in a committed relationship. Food loves me, and I love food. It's serious stuff.
& marry the guy who will cook for me -:) 

Well Matt , my new "friend", loves food too. He went to a culinary school and is a chef by trade, but instead of sharing his love for food with just a few hundreds of people in a restaurant, he and his two partners decided to create Blue Apron and introduce great cooking to millions of people at a time.
  

Matt Wadiak, along with Matt Salzberg and Ilia Papas, started Blue Apron 3 years ago "to make quality and speciality ingredients accessible to everyone, no matter where they live or how busy they are." This quote comes directly from the company's website and prior to meeting Matt, I would have said that was a bunch of marketing bla bla bla.

Papas, Salzberg & Wadiak respectively from left to right 

But after speaking to Matt for a full hour, I can say with certainty that what is on the website is the truth. Matt has just visited Tunisia, an amazing tiny country in North Africa where I happen to be born, to try olive oil and other fresh produce and he was on his way to go and try salted butter in Green Bay on a Sunday. I call that commitment.



So unless you have a lot of free time, I do, and enjoy going from store to store to find every single ingredient on your shopping list to make a delicious miso sea bass or a spicy Thai green coconut curry chicken on a Tuesday night after a long day at work, you should probably start a Blue Apron membership. It is simple, and convenient, and not that pricey. For less then $60, you get 3 meals per week for you and your significant other - or your best friend if you too are single. It amounts to barely $10 per person per meal, which is a steal for anything with a price tag in New York - pretty much everything!


Bon Appetit Everyone  


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