GRAND FORKS — Tucked in the corner of a busy kitchen in First Presbyterian Church in Grand Forks, a team of white-clad “lutefisk chefs” led by Carrol Juven hover around steaming vats of the ...

Lutefisk -- dried cod soaked in a lye solution and then rinsed and cooked -- is a traditional Scandinavian-heritage American food tradition, often prepared at Christmas. Pictured is lutefisk prepared ...

Tucked in the corner of a busy kitchen in First Presbyterian Church in Grand Forks, a team of white-clad "lutefisk chefs" led by Carrol Juven hover around steaming vats of the traditional Norwegian ...

The aroma of steaming lutefisk brought taste buds to watery attention Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the Viroqua Eagles Club. The club’s dinner is the kickoff of its annual cancer telethon. It’s also one of ...

It's wiggly. It's jiggly. And it tastes like, well, you be the judge. Lutefisk has a bad reputation for being smelly and foul-tasting. But those who love it swear by it. Like Tom Swanson of rural ...

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 ...

Chris Dorff, president of the 105-year-old Olsen Fish Co. in Minneapolis, thinks the way to save lutefisk is to innovate. The dried-rehydrated fish dish that’s been declining in popularity in recent ...

The lutefisk laid in rows on the tray, its lucid white gelatinous shape topped with a yellow spice, ready to go into the oven. In First Lutheran Church’s basement on Wednesday, the annual Scandinavian ...

ST. PAUL — There was talk that this week’s lutefisk dinner at Christ Lutheran Church in Marine on St. Croix might be the last. It was hard to find volunteers to prepare and staff the most recent ...

The Cranfills Gap community came together on Saturday for the 52nd annual Norwegian Lutefisk Dinner. It's a holiday tradition that the Cranfills Gap Lion's Booster Club began in 1964 to raise money ...

Someone put a mug on my desk. It was a close replica of a Campbell’s soup can, but the company that turns out such delectables as tomato bisque and chicken noodle soup would never make any soup as ...