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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...