It's a holiday tradition in many Northland homes. The UMD lutefisk celebration began modestly years ago when Gilbertson invited a grad student from New Zealand to his home to experience some local ...

Line! As our papers have merged, we find ourselves suddenly neighbors in a new way: we're reading each other's news. While ...

There’s a saying that half the Norwegians who immigrated to America came in order to escape the dreaded lutefisk, and the other half came to sing its praises. For the uninitiated, lutefisk is a dried ...

For over 100 years, Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Cloquet has been serving a lutefisk, salmon, and meatball dinner for all to enjoy. Having ties back in Scandinavian history, lutefisk is a fish that ...

Although the doors don’t open until 11 a.m., the parking lot is already filling up on a Friday morning at Lakeview Lutheran Church in Madison, Wisconsin. Inside, volunteers busily set tables, stir ...

There are pretty much only two opinions when it comes to lutefisk: You either love it, or you don't. Helga Staffan, 63, comes down on the "don't" side of the debate. Staffan grew up in a town of less ...

I am living proof that not all fish is brain food. Saturday, while I was covering a story about Bonnet Prairie Lutheran Church's annual Lutefisk Day, the kitchen crew that was de-boning pans full of ...

(AP) Dozens of Minnesota Scandinavians and the people who love them flock to the VFW Club in Litchfield every Thursday from November through January, where a $20 bill will get you a big steaming hunk ...

MARINE ON ST CROIX, Minn. — When the doors opened Thursday morning at Christ Lutheran Church in Marine on St. Croix, the smell of lutefisk lingered in the air. "Follow your nose," said the door ...

STILLWATER, Minn. — There's nothing fishy about what's happening here. In the basement of Christ Lutheran Church, Mark Rossi is in his element. He's cooking up 500 pounds of lutefisk. "It's a very, ...

Inside the briny corporate office of the nation's largest lutefisk processing plant, Nigerian immigrant Chidi Omeoga is settling her bill for a half-dozen whole dried cod. Their tails stick out of the ...