North America's Scandinavians keep lutefisk tradition alive
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Great Falls Tribune] By Briana Wipf - December 15, 2014 -
With a name that means "lye fish," the cod dish known as lutefisk already has an uphill battle when it comes to being eaten.
But for the folks who eat it, it's an annual treat.
"The simplest way to say it is, the people who want it, want it bad," said Michael Vetere, a manager at 2J's Fresh Market in Great Falls.
The core lutefisk market is the states around Minnesota, including the Dakotas, northern Iowa and Wisconsin. The prairie provinces of Canada consume the fish, too. "It boils down to where a lot of Scandinavians settled," said Chris Dorff, president of Olsen Fish Company in Minneapolis.
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