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Norwegian-American Foodways

Diaspora

Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Iowa and the Seattle area, sustained by Lutheran churches, colleges, bygdelag societies and festivals — Syttende Mai, Norsk Høstfest in Minot, Nordic museums. The markers: the LUTEFISK SUPPER, which is a larger institution in Norwegian America than in Norway; LEFSE, made with a grooved rolling pin and a dedicated griddle and often the last skill a family keeps; krumkake, rosettes, sandbakkels, fattigmann; rømmegrøt; and the church-basement coffee. ⚠ NOT EVERY SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN DISH IS NORWEGIAN — Swedish meatballs and Danish æbleskiver are other people’s markers.

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Communities and languages

  • Norwegian-Americans community documented

Languages: Norwegian (Bokmål)

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  • related to Lutefisk documented

    The lutefisk supper is a larger institution in Norwegian America than in Norway.

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