A year ago, Matt Read gave up a college teaching job he loved to work full time on Spatchcock Funk, a national brand he and co-founder Alex DeRosa are building around food, fun and inclusion.
Read and DeRosa hope to capitalize on disruptions in the media landscape and the explosion of the creator economy.
The tentpole of the brand is “Spatchcock Funk,” a cooking show now in its third season on Syracuse’s WCNY-TV and 75 other PBS affiliates nationwide. Each high-energy episode is built around a party, often highlighting cool places around Central New York…