It’s just after 11 a.m. in a church basement in DeForest, Wisconsin, and I am face to face with one of the whitest plates of food I’ve seen in my life. I have tracked down the holiday dinner of my ...

Lutefisk, the traditional Scandinavian delicacy of cod that's been soaked in lye, remains beloved by many Scandinavian-Americans. Those without a taste for the unusual--and occasionally polarizing-- ...

Although the doors don’t open until 11 a.m., the parking lot is already filling up on a Friday morning at Lakeview Lutheran Church in Madison, Wisconsin. Inside, volunteers busily set tables, stir ...

With an unofficial slogan of Take the Risk, Try Lutefisk, it’s a pretty safe assumption that dining on lutefisk is not your average meal. That’s what’s printed on the aprons at Sons of Norway, Norrona ...

LITCHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Dozens of Minnesota Scandinavians and the people who love them flock to the VFW Club in Litchfield every Thursday from November through January, where a $20 bill will get you ...

The Marmite centennial in Britain prompts me to develop a thesis: National or creedal groups tend to keep their boundaries strong by pretending to like foods that others find distasteful. Through long ...

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Dozens of Minnesota Scandinavians and the people who love them flock to the VFW Club in Litchfield every Thursday from November through January, where a $20 bill will get you a big steaming hunk of ...

GRAND FORKS — 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 ...

It’s a tough sell for what’s supposed to be a festive meal: a pile of translucent jelly with a questionable aroma. But, as I prepared to celebrate Christmas in my native Norway for the first time in ...