They don’t call Martha Rossini “sweet” for nothing! Saint paul native Martha and her three business partners have been selling fresh-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookies for over 40 years. Before even considering cookies, the Sweet Martha’s owners ran a frozen yogurt shop on Hennepin Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. We applied for a booth at the Minnesota State fair but we were rejected (there was already a yogurt stand at the fair). In 1979, Martha and crew applied for the state fair again, this time for both yogurt and cookies. Three weeks before the fair begin, we were accepted – for Cookies. Only problem? We didn’t have a cookie recipe, so we combined all of our mothers recipes into what you now know and love. A few weeks later we open our first and a 9 x 11 structure that the owners build themselves at first we were able to make 200 cookies and 12 minutes now we bake 44,000 cookies in the same amount of time. Flash forward to now, we have three locations at the state fair - th...