Martha Rossini 'Sweet Martha' Olson
Job: State Fair cookie vendor, frozen-dough purveyor and just-retired elementary art teacher.
Home: An expanded and remodeled brick bungalow in St. Paul's Highland Park neighborhood.
Shares with: Husband Gary Olson. (The couple have two young-adult children who have left the nest.)
Latest projects: Rolling out a new frozen-cookie dough, Macadamia Nut White Chocolate Chunk. (The Sweet Martha's Cookie Jar booths at the State Fair will stick to classic chocolate chip.) And at home, "I'm redoing the back yard."
Hostess style: Big, to accommodate her large extended family. "I like to entertain and cook for crowds," she said. "Immediate family is over 65 people."
KIM PALMER
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