Horseradish business anything but bitter
Quick ReadIn high gear, the horseradish grinding room
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | The Gold family members in the company's warehouse: From left, Marc, Neil, Melissa, Howard and Steve Gold with cases of the various condiments produced in Hempstead. Marc and Melissa hold the horseradish roots, which produce pungent vapors when ground. (March 22, 2011)
In high gear, the horseradish grinding room is a place of tears, the vapors permeating the Hempstead Village plant of Gold Pure Food Products Co.
These days, the penny-pinching economy has given the family-owned condiments maker a little zip.
Sales of Gold's Horseradish have grown by about 7 percent in the past five years, said Marc Gold, the eldest of co-owners brother Steven and cousins...
