The Swedish Lutefisk Tossing Team comes to the 8th Annual Nordic Music Festival ready to toss some fish and toss it hard. More importantly, to toss it accurately into the regulation 5-gallon pails.

“New cuisine” took off all over Scandinavia in the past decade, delivering tasting menus of air-dried sea buckthorn and musk ox, hay-smoked duck and birchwood bouillon. Here in Seattle, though, old ...

Some Christmas traditions stink. One tradition of my childhood was smellier than three-day-old fish. In fact, it was three-day-old fish. My grandmother was Swedish, and lutefisk was a part of her ...

Chris Hicks, 55, lives and breathes lutefisk. She was in charge of the Sons of Norway Bothell Lodge’s lutefisk dinner, which over the weekend served 780 people paying $23 a plate. “We used 1,000 ...

KASSON, Minn. — Lutefisk is what you get when you soak cod in lye. It doesn’t sound like the most appetizing treat, but many descendants of Norwegian and Swedish immigrants can’t get enough of it, ...

At first, the idea of connecting with my Swedish roots at Ikea seemed novel. The store, which opened in Round Rock in 2006, is first and foremost a furniture store, and though I was well acquainted ...