Scandinavians have a lot of holiday traditions, but there is one thing that no celebration can be without — lefse, a flat-bread specialty made from potatoes. For weeks, groups have been making lefse ...

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 ...

Americans of Scandinavian heritage know the holiday season is coming when kitchens fill with the sights and smells of lefse, a crepelike item made from riced or mashed potatoes. Lefse is a traditional ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. — Every year around the holidays, Gerri Thorsgard and her friends meet in Bemidji over 40 pounds of potatoes and a shared mission — lefse. The tradition started a dozen years ago when ...

I’m a sixth-generation lefse maker. In the 1880s, my great-great-grandmother, Kari Brandum, brought our family lefse recipe with her from the Lillehammer region of Norway when she immigrated to ...