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 ...

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 ...

John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. With the holidays fast ...

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: ...

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 ...

LITCHFIELD, Minn. (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 ...

LITCHFIELD, Minn. – With its pseudo-castle exterior, the Litchfield VFW may be the perfect setting for one of Minnesota's longest running battles: the cultural divide between lovers and haters of ...