Category: Nordic Food Traditions

A Smashed Hit – Raghavan Iyer talk and book signing

November 1, 2017

Savory potato aebelskiver. Hasselback potatoes with cardamom and lemon butter. Lefse and ….well, that would be telling. That particular combination will be revealed this Saturday, November 4 when cookbook author, recipe developer, consultant, and a 2005 finalist for the James Beard Journalism award, Raghavan Iyer, will be at Ingebretsen’s for his cookbook, Smashed, Mashed, Boiled,… More A Smashed Hit – Raghavan Iyer talk and book signing

The Dobratzes say good bye to teaching and share lefse expertise

October 17, 2017

For fourteen years, Dave and Martha Dobratz have been leading lefse classes at Ingebretsen’s. They’ve shared their hard-won knowledge, encouraged people to make mistakes (“We want to show how to fix the problems that are sure to happen when you’re on your own,” says Dave), and let people know that the “perfect lefse” is the… More The Dobratzes say good bye to teaching and share lefse expertise

A Bit of Nordic Ice Tea

June 9, 2017

Iced tea is probably an American creation; the first recipe for the drink as we know it appeared in the cookbook Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Marion Cabell Tyree and published in 1879. The proportions of sugar to tea and lemon put Ms. Tyree’s creation squarely in the category of what we now call Southern… More A Bit of Nordic Ice Tea