More than meals, these Minnesota recipes are cultural treasures locals defend with passion and a dash of Nordic stubbornness.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For every lefse recipe handed down from grandma, there probably are a hundred more variations for making those flat potato-y rounds that taste so good with everything, said Cindy Dahl, a lefse-making ...

Family traditions run rampant this time of year, from driving around looking at holiday lights, gingerbread house competitions, and even special foods. Ashley’s in-laws have had a tradition for years ...

Potatoes, whipping cream, butter, salt, sugar and flour. Lots of flour. The recipe for the Norwegian flatbread has become ...

Big ideas can come from standing around a county fair. I learned that in June during a week of exhilaration and exhaustion of watching kids' 4-H project work come to a close, with joy and sometimes a ...

With this holiday season following a hotly contested election, some Americans fear that political disagreements among family will boil over like a pot of poorly watched potatoes. In North Dakota, ...

DULUTH, Minn. — When I-35 was completed through Duluth in 1992, the construction interrupted natural gas lines to First Lutheran Church, which sits along the route of the freeway expansion. It ...