Her passion has always been connecting people with specialty cheeses and other ingredients that they might not otherwise have known about. She started with a spot in the Rochester Produce grocery, which led to her opening the Culinary Market shop in downtown Rochester.
Zubay followed that with Zzest, which started out as a market with a small lunch counter before it involved into a restaurant. In the wake of Zzest becoming
Hot Chip, she added a small food market to Lettuce Unite in the downtown skyway food court.
When Lettuce Unite closed, “I started thinking how much I wanted this stuff back. Then I wondered if others wanted it back, too,” Zubay said.
Get a Champagne education, from last-minute suggestions to easy sparkling cocktails Learn to decipher the language of sparkling wines.
By Bill Ward, Special to the Star Tribune December 30, 2020 10:33am Text size Copy shortlink:
I used to preach that wine is simple. But it turns out that it s no more transparent than petite sirah, at least when it comes to nomenclature.
If a label reads Champagne, it has to be from that region in northeastern France; oh, except that the folks at Korbel in California got an exception and can use Champagne on their labels. Prosecco used to be a grape name but now is used strictly to refer to a region in northern Italy, and the primary grape has been called glera since 2009.