FOSSTON, Minn. - Call it lefse with an attitude. Instead of just plain ol' lefse, Quinn Olson adds spices - yes, spices - to the dough to give some of the lefse he sells a little kick. Olson readily ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This one makes dinner easy.

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 ...

For many Norwegian-American families, the biggest Christmas treat isn't foil-wrapped chocolate or sugar-dusted cookies. It's lefse, a simple flatbread. Lefse are sort of like soft tortillas, made ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. — Just as Bubba told Forrest Gump that shrimp was the fruit of the sea, I couldn’t help but consider lefse the fruit of Minnesota’s Norwegian sea when I arrived at Bemidji Sunrise ...

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 ...

Amy Marquard rolls out a slice of lefse at her home in rural Foley, Minn. Marquard has a lefse-related website and has designed several products to aid in making lefse. When it comes to staying ...

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 ...