Alz Rootz, located in SOMA CURA Wellness Center on Grand Island, NY: a healthy cafe featuring Public Espresso + Coffee, Snowy Owl Kombucha, fresh juices, organic teas, and super-food packed smoothies!
Al Z was someone who loved being dirty.
He loved camping, and getting dusty. Al Z grew up and worked on a farm as a young boy. He worked as a stone mason for most of his adult life. Al Z found solace in coming home from a 10-hour day of work and puttering around in his 10 x 20 foot garden in his backyard. It is there, his sanctuary, that Al Z grew a bounty full of fruits and vegetables under his patient and caring touch, with the simplest and most modest of gardening tools, some he whittled by hand. Al Z loved to literally suck the juice out of the vegetables and fruits he plucked from Mother Earth. "Good-to-the-last-drop", and not wasting anything was his motto. He would eat an apple, tomato, and cucumber the same way - natural, raw, bare-hands, seeds, flesh and all. Al Z didn't know that most of the phytonutrients were in the skins. He never even heard of the word phytonutrient.
Al Z had an avid curiosity to explore Mother Nature's bounty on a larger scale. His first trip out west in 1973 in a pop-up Bethany camper pulled by a Plymouth Fury, was the first of over 50 trips Al Z led to every nook and cranny of the coolest places in the backyards of our National Parks.
If Al Z was alive today, he would invite you to share in the purest, most natural products in a place that would make you feel at home. And he would not let you leave without a story about the National Park where your drink received its moniker.
Al Z was a simple, humble man.
When you met him, you only had two choices:
You either liked him...or you loved him.
The simple stuff from life is the most powerful.
Alfred Zinter was my dad's name.
That was Al Z. That is Alz Rootz.
-Sue Zinter, co-owner SOMA CURA Wellness Center
