📘 New book shares Sea Salt's recipes — and lore

As a longtime Minneapolis resident, Gail Rosenblum isn't sure how she'd never been to Sea Salt before 2017, the year her daughter started dating co-owner Kait Ziemer-Davis. But after that first visit, she became a diehard.

She was captivated by the usual stuff — the length of the line, the atmosphere of the patio, the volume of food churned out. But for the career journalist, the real intrigue was becoming a peripheral member of the restaurant's family unit, which offered a peek into the characters and lore you can really only get through a personal connection to the notoriously insular institution.

A couple years ago, having recently retired from the Star Tribune, Gail pitched her now-daughter-in-law on the idea of writing a definitive history of the place, while it's still in its prime and while its main characters are still around. She figured it could be timed with the restaurant's 20th anniversary in 2025.