A debate over using artificial turf forced a Minneapolis high school to pivot. Now it's one of the first users of a special hybrid grass. Lee Svitak Dean, the Star Tribune's food editor, joined up ...

Today when area families enjoy lefse as a part of their holiday tradition, they may be using Lucia Schroeder's recipe. The Glyndon, Minn., woman has been teaching classes on how to make the ...

Lefse. It's a paper-thin flatbread, made from potatoes and cooked on a griddle, flipped with a long, narrow wooden stick, and eaten slathered with butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon. If you're of ...

The best way to make lefse is also debated, but the Hollandale version goes something like this: Potatoes are peeled and boiled, riced and cooled, then mixed with flour, sugar, salt and melted butter.

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 ...

CEDAR FALLS -- The Sons of Norway will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 22. The program will be on how to make lefse. Attendees should bring items for its silent auction fundraising event. The group meets at ...

It’s one batch down and another batch to go on Sunday as Else Rike (left) and granddaughter Olivia Rike-Norman finish packaging the first 16 lefse rounds. Else Rike says she never freezes her lefse.

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 ...