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 ...

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 ...

Come the holiday season, Evelyn Hensrud gives her lefse griddle a good workout. During the past 50 years, Hensrud has made thousands of rounds of the soft Norwegian flatbread on the Bethany she got ...

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, ...

Three to do the actual hard labor of mixing, rolling and frying. One - who is actually the only Norwegian in the group - to do the sampling and critiquing. And one more to document it all and post it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scandinavians have a lot of holiday traditions, but there is one thing that no celebration can be without — lefse, a flat-bread specialty made from potatoes. For weeks, groups have been making 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 ...

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 ...