SPICER, Minn. — With one hand holding a heavy stoneware plate, Joel Piepenburg uses the other hand to scoop up chunks of white, boiled lutefisk. When he’s done, there is barely a speck of plate ...

Consider the Nordic culinary tradition of lutefisk. A Lingcod is pulled from the north Atlantic, filleted and kiln dried until every drop of moisture is removed and it resembles a piece of rawhide ...

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 ...

Rehydrate fish by soaking it completely in ice water for a day, changing water several times, and keep in refrigerator. Lutefisk can be baked, steamed or poached. Luann Boyer recommends baking. While ...

For nearly three decades people have gathered to watch two teams of Scandinavians throw lutefisk at each other's buckets as ...

The lure of lutefisk: Fish dish is what's for dinner in UMD grad-school tradition A near-tragedy occurred on Thursday when University of Minnesota Duluth professor Ken Gilbertson went shopping for ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In this Dec. 20, 2012 photo, Ryan Bosma serves lutefisk to Marian Rasmussen at the VFW in Litchfield, Minn. Dozens of Minnesota Scandinavians and the people who love them still flock to the VFW Club ...