Slated For Your Pantry: Brooklyn Slate Took Rock Pieces, Made A Worthwhile Product

It goes to reason that carefully crafted cheese deserves to be showcased on a unique vessel worthy of its greatness, and this is where Brooklyn Slate comes in. Owned by Kristy Hadeka and Sean Tice, this small, Brooklyn-based company has a unique way of composing a cheese platter by using nature's chalkboard, slate.

"It's very common in Europe to plate cheeses and other foods on slate," said Hadeka, a cheese lover from the get-go who first saw the fabled rock slabs in the Grand Central Market. At the time, she and Tice had only been dating a few months and were on their way for him to meet her parents for first time, who, coincidently, own a quarry. Mesmerized by the slates in the store, it was serendipitous that they discovered a cash of these beautiful rocks there, and brought some home. The rest you could say is history. "We decided on that trip to start this business," said Hadeka.