MOORHEAD, Minn. - Please don’t send me angry emails and letters about the story I’m about to write. I want to start by saying I admire Norwegian-American culture every Christmas and think it’s totally ...

FOSSTON, Minn. - Call it lefse with an attitude. Instead of just plain ol' lefse, Quinn Olson adds spices - yes, spices - to the dough to give some of the lefse he sells a little kick. Olson readily ...

DULUTH, Minn. — When I-35 was completed through Duluth in 1992, the construction interrupted natural gas lines to First Lutheran Church, which sits along the route of the freeway expansion. It ...

RUSHFORD, Minn. — The market for lefse, a traditional Norwegian flatbread, is relatively small in comparison to other foods, but Norsland Lefse has found a way to reach its demographic from the small ...

ROCHESTER — You'd think that after 20 years of helping my husband make traditional Norwegian lefse for the holidays, I'd catch on to the process. But no matter how many pounds of potatoes I peel, boil ...

STARBUCK, Minn.-- You don't need to see a welcome sign to know you're in Starbuck. It's a town of about 1,300 people full of lefse and lutefisk. This spring, Starbuck officially opened the Lefse Hall ...

FARGO – Blackbird Woodfire has made its name by offering items you won't find at other pizza places. There's a BLT pizza, one with Brussels sprouts and another yet with pistachios. For the holidays, ...

MaryBeth Davis fills her holidays with family, friends and lots of lefse. Davis, of Cutten, has been eating the traditional soft, thin Norwegian flatbread since she was a child. “Lefse is probably one ...

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 ...

Norwegian sweaters, Swedish crystal, Danish iron candleworks and the gnarled-nosed trolls that cross all Scandinavian borders are no longer for sale in downtown Willmar. With the Aug. 2 closing of the ...

With this holiday season following a hotly contested election, some Americans fear that political disagreements among family will boil over like a pot of poorly watched potatoes. In North Dakota, ...

Thirty pounds of potatoes. Three pounds of butter. Six cups of heavy cream. Ten pounds of flour. The Lefse Institute was open. Rebecca Jorgenson Sundquist slipped a pastry sleeve over a ridged rolling ...