Both her parents had a gentry background and belonged to the Slovak intellectual circles, which attracted negative attention by the then rising Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

[4] After the country fell under the Communist rule the family fortune of her parents was nationalised, and her father was assigned as a worker to a brick factory.

[5] Growing up in Martin, Mintalová-Zubercová attended the local grammar school, and later thanks to a family friend was despite her personnel files held by the Communist party able to apply for university.

[8] Mintalová-Zubercová retired from her active scientific career in 2009, but still continues to work in the field of food history research, publishing books and articles.

[9] During her career Mintalová-Zubecová authored and co-authored more than 14 monographs, and published more than 250 scientific papers in the fields of history and ethnology.