RUSHFORD, Minn. — The market for lefse, a traditional Norwegian flatbread, is relatively small in comparison to other foods, but Norsland Lefse has found a way to reach its demographic from the small ...

Thelma Larson’s lefse is more than delicious. She used her secret family recipe for more than a half-century, and she sold her wares every holiday season for decades in the Lake Crystal and Butternut ...

Big ideas can come from standing around a county fair. I learned that in June during a week of exhilaration and exhaustion of watching kids' 4-H project work come to a close, with joy and sometimes a ...

For every lefse recipe handed down from grandma, there probably are a hundred more variations for making those flat potato-y rounds that taste so good with everything, said Cindy Dahl, a lefse-making ...

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 ...

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 ...

DULUTH, Minn. — When I-35 was completed through Duluth in 1992, the construction interrupted natural gas lines to First Lutheran Church, which sits along the route of the freeway expansion. It ...

“Honestly, the first time I tried it, I thought it was just OK,” said Eva Hjorth, who grew up in Sweden, but married a Norwegian. What lefse lacks in glamour, it makes up for in sentimentality. Any ...

FOLEY - 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 ...