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Urban Rustic Grocery
New Grocery Puts Focus on Local and Sustainable Food
by Marianne McCune
NEW YORK, NY June 03, 2008 —Urban Rustic Grocery -- across from McCarren Park in Williamsburg – is a label reader's paradise. Its focus is local, traceable and sustainable. The owners milled their own wood for the floorboards; the café’s to-go forks and spoons are made of potato starch; and the shelves are dotted with labels that read, ‘Made in Brooklyn.’ As WNYC’s Marianne McCune reports, the store’s founder is a filmmaker turned grocer.
