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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...