P
itching your product
in front of four lead-
ers in the specialty food
business can be nerve-racking.
Doing it in front of an audience
at the Winter Fancy Food Show
Front Burner Foodservice Pitch
Competition amps up the anxi-
ety factor even more. But Chitra
Agrawal, owner of Brooklyn
Delhi, believes in pushing herself
out of her comfort zone and the
Front Burner competition certain-
ly qualifies as that. "I get very ner-
vous when presenting," she says.
40 ❘ SPECIALTY FOOD MAGAZINE specialtyfood.com
producer profile
Bringing Indian home cooking
to retail and foodservice with a
"super condiment" of a product.
BY SUSAN SEGREST
Chitra Agrawal, Brooklyn Delhi
Indian Immersion
PHOTO: CHITRA AGRAWAL