Before refrigerators and freezers kept food fresh, pioneers ate only salt-cured meats that doubled as shelters on their beef-covered wagons. Spicy up your sustenance in style with today's Groupon: for $14, you get one bottle each of Tavern on the Green's 9-ounce Wasabi Wonder (an $8.50 value), 12-ounce 1870 Steak Sauce (a $9.95 value), and 12-ounce Golden Ginger Teriyaki (a $9.95 value) from Tavern Direct (a $28.40 total value).

Tavern Direct transforms amateur cooks into world-class gourmands with savory sauces, mouthwatering marinades, and breathtaking balsamic vinegars. Seasoning scientists can tap into famed New York restaurant Tavern on the Green's culinary formalwear with a trio of gourmet sauces ideal for marinating, dipping, and pouring over rejoicing sportsmen. Wasabi Wonder's labyrinthine layering of wasabi flavors imparts aromatic hints of horseradish and soy sauce as it soaks into seared tuna, grilled whitefish, and piping hot dumplings. Succulent steaks flourish under the tomato-tinged drizzle of the 1870 Steak Sauce, and the Golden Ginger Teriyaki's Far East flavors enliven stir-fried veggies with a low-sodium blend of ginger, honey, silk rose petals, and red-wine vinegar. In addition to furnishing common comestibles with rich flavor makeovers, Tavern Direct donates $0.50 for every product purchased to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which serves as a national resource on the issues of missing and sexually exploited children.