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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amy Marquard is all about precision, in life and in the kitchen. “I probably should have been a food scientist, because I love technique and process,” said Marquard, who does accounts receivable work ...

Round balls of dough ready on plates. Irons heated. Round wooden boards lined up and down the kitchen counter. Sons of Norway lefse makers were ready to roll for the holidays a few weeks before their ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Whether you're from Norway or Minnesota, chances are you know what lefse is. The thin potato bread is a Norwegian Christmas tradition. So, just in time for the holiday, WCCO ...

If you're a lefse fan, you're probably already familiar with this company. Freddy's Lefse, 176 E. Main Ave., West Fargo, has operated in Fargo-Moorhead since 1946. The company makes and sells lefse - ...

The scene was this past September's Feast, the event The Sandwich Invitational. Amid all the ingredients shoved between a bun, two slices of bread and even a pita was Matt Christianson's braised beef ...

I needed to find what The Herald had written previously about lefse — the Scandinavian potato flatbread — so I did a search on our website. When dozens of obituaries popped up, I was struck by the ...

Duluth’s lefse run is coming back for a third year, hosted right on the lakewalk. It’s a 3 mile run with a piece of lefse waiting at the finish line. The race is made possible with the partnership ...

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 ...

Lefse is a common dish at a Midwest holiday celebration. The main ingredient is potatoes, and Bea Ojakangas says they must be Russet potatoes. She boils and then rices them before mashing them ...