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 ...

Postcards captures the 50th anniversary of Madison, Minnesota's annual lutefisk eating contest. Around 1982 is when the Madison, Minnesota, Chamber of Commerce chose to declare themselves as the ...

O lutefisk, O lutefisk, you put me in a coma. Alexandria, Minn. - Sure, the Scandinavian holiday tradition of eating lutefisk is the source of jokes for some, you betcha! But it's serious business for ...

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 ...

No one wants to say no to a dare, even if it involves something as vilified as the Norwegian lye-soaked cod dish known as lutefisk. The Forum rounded up several staffers last Friday to take on the ...

Story City is doubling down on its Scandinavian roots this year by adding a lutefisk-eating contest to Scandinavian Days — because apparently parades and heritage displays weren't challenging enough.

I'm a nearly lifelong Minnesotan with a fair amount of Swedish ancestry, but until I walked down the steps of a Lutheran church basement Friday evening, I had never tried lutefisk. Why it matters: ...

With the holidays fast approaching, and lutefisk on the menu for many families, one Minnesota town has the distinction of being called the "Lutefisk Capital of the Country." The moniker is a source of ...

Interesting but not surprising that people wonder about this, given that we in the Midwest seem to have a certain fascination ...

Created for longevity and downright survival, lutefisk and sausage redefine surf and turf. Created for longevity and survival, preserved foods sausage and lutefisk have rich stories and reveal ...