Lefse. It's a paper-thin flatbread, made from potatoes and cooked on a griddle, flipped with a long, narrow wooden stick, and eaten slathered with butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon. If you're of ...

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 ...

Some like it with butter, while others like their lefse with anything from jam and peanut butter to sausage. Lefse is a flatbread that is traditionally made in Scandinavia during the winter months, ...

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 ...

It’s one batch down and another batch to go on Sunday as Else Rike (left) and granddaughter Olivia Rike-Norman finish packaging the first 16 lefse rounds. Else Rike says she never freezes her lefse.

I’m a sixth-generation lefse maker. In the 1880s, my great-great-grandmother, Kari Brandum, brought our family lefse recipe with her from the Lillehammer region of Norway when she immigrated to ...

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, ...

KANAWHA - Katie Tveiten is only 33 years old, but she is not letting old traditions die. She is the fourth generation in her family to hold tight to the tradition of making lefse- that tasty treat of ...

We make lefse together each year, celebrating our long-standing friendships and sharing our love of potato flatbread. We hardly have time to reflect on each passing year as it creeps to a close, but ...

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OSAKIS, Minn. — Imagine making 1,000 lefse rounds a day or 100,000 of them in a year. That’s the output of the hand-rolled Jacobs Lefse made by Jack and Bonnie Jacobs of Osakis. Lefse production is ...