Diane Tott was devastated to lose her family’s beloved walnut tree when the derecho blew through central Iowa on Aug. 10. Faced with the reality of losing the tree forever, Tott had an epiphany: She ...

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 ...

The scene was this past September's Feast, the event The Sandwich Invitational. Amid all the ingredients shoved between a bun, two slices of bread and even a pita was Matt Christianson's braised beef ...

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 ...

I needed to find what The Herald had written previously about lefse — the Scandinavian potato flatbread — so I did a search on our website. When dozens of obituaries popped up, I was struck by the ...

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 ...