Demand For Farm-Raised Organic Fare Sparks New Retail Businesses
On a recent Saturday at Smorgasburg, the waterfront food market that has become an epicenter of Brooklyn's artisanal food movement, Scott Bridi, 36, was demonstrating his creativity at $5 a pop in front of a small crowd. His medium: a slider-size rye bun delicately stacked with spice-encrusted pastrami, which, as the founder of the five-employee, 2-year-old charcuterie firm Brooklyn Cured, Mr. Bridi prepared himself. …