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Abuela's Carnitas, Ready in Five Minutes
Del Real Foods took the slow-cooked meats of a Michoacan kitchen, refused to add preservatives, and figured out how to sell them in the Costco cold case. In 2024 a Guatemalan food giant bought a controlling piece.
HelloFresh Put Dinner on Autopilot. Now It Wants the Rest of the Kitchen
The lime-green box solved the 6 p.m. question with portioned ingredients and a recipe card. Fifteen years later, HelloFresh is trying to turn that weekly habit into an operating system for what households eat.
Goldbelly
Goldbelly is a New York-based online marketplace that ships iconic regional dishes and gourmet foods from more than 1,000 restaurants, bakeries, and food makers across all 50 U.S. states directly to customers' doors. Founded in 2013 by Joe Ariel, the company lets people order signature dishes - from Nashville hot chicken to New York cheesecake and deep-dish pizza - along with celebrity-chef meal kits, food-gift boxes, and subscriptions, packaging nostalgia and hard-to-get local specialties into nationwide delivery.
EatWell Meal Kits
EatWell is a Boston-based social-impact startup that turns meal kits into a healthcare intervention. Founded by Harvard School of Public Health students, it produces prescription meal kits - fresh ingredients plus fast, culturally relevant recipes designed by a Michelin-trained chef - that healthcare providers and insurers prescribe to patients facing food insecurity and chronic disease. Kits are made in Dorchester at CommonWealth Kitchen by production staff hired from the communities EatWell serves, and are reimbursed through MassHealth ACO Flexible Services and health-system partnerships under the growing 'Food is Medicine' model.