KASSON, Minn. — Lutefisk is what you get when you soak cod in lye. It doesn’t sound like the most appetizing treat, but many descendants of Norwegian and Swedish immigrants can’t get enough of it, ...

Americans of Scandinavian heritage know the holiday season is coming when kitchens fill with the sights and smells of lefse, a crepelike item made from riced or mashed potatoes. Lefse is a traditional ...

Lovers of lefse and other traditional Scandinavian foods should mark their calendars for the 41st lutefisk and meatball dinner and bake sale on Nov. 4 in Yakima. Held by the Sons of Norway Yakima Odin ...

Tucked in the corner of a busy kitchen in First Presbyterian Church in Grand Forks, a team of white-clad "lutefisk chefs" led by Carrol Juven hover around steaming vats of the traditional Norwegian ...

Chris Hicks, 55, lives and breathes lutefisk. She was in charge of the Sons of Norway Bothell Lodge’s lutefisk dinner, which over the weekend served 780 people paying $23 a plate. “We used 1,000 ...

The road to Thanksgiving and Christmas is paved with lutefisk and lefse in this part of the world. After all, this area has been heavily populated with Norwegian immigrants. They all brought their ...

DULUTH — Ever find yourself on a winter run and craving some warm Norwegian potato bread? The third annual Lefse Run on Saturday combines the tradition of Norwegian lefse with a free fun run with a ...

Writes Sharon of Roseville: “My favorite uncle passed away on Tuesday evening in Rockford, Ill., at the age of 87. He was the last one in a family of 11 — and as is fitting, he was the youngest. My ...

Since moving to Moorhead from California last summer, Concordia College President Pamela Jolicoeur has successfully eluded lutefisk while taking a liking to lefse. "I love it," she said of the ...

The Lutherans drove their Oldsmobiles and Fords through New Richmond and Star Prairie in the hours before dusk, through Wisconsin towns where it is forbidden to correctly spell the name of anything ...

If Minnesota had a state food, it would be lefse. Granted, we already have a state mushroom (the morel), and even a state muffin (blueberry), but what we lack is just a general food item. Lefse should ...

It was a lefse emergency. My cousin Missy was seeking lefse the day before Thanksgiving. She had checked with every store in Brookings, but could not locate any of the Norwegian potato flatbread that ...