Word: lutefisk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lona Williams' script has more lutefisk and Lutheran gags than a year of A Prairie Home Companion. Williams and director Michael Patrick Jann are as eager to deride Middle America, with its oppressively cheerful whiteness, as they were to exploit the area's hospitality; the film was shot in half a dozen Minnesota towns. As Amber says, "The whole thing's kinda sad and lame at the same time...
Edwards says she was also interested in discovering the differences between Scandinavian-American culture and bona fide Scandinavian culture. "For instance, [Swedish-Americans] tend to eat lutefisk, which no self-respecting Swede would," she says...
...North End alone is probably worth a few hours of silence on the subject of Seattle (and, anyway, it's tough to complain while your mouth is stuffed with pasta). The main European ethnicity in Seattle is Scandanavian. Let's face it, ravioli beats lutefisk...
...wilderness. Robert Bly, who is now a leader of the men's movement and author of Iron John, spent some years in the territory. His wilderness lies three hours west of Minneapolis, out toward the South Dakota border, in flat farm country around Madison (pop. 2,000), Minn., "the Lutefisk Capital of the World...
...Robert and Carol Bly "went to hide out at the farm" on the edge of the Lutefisk Capital of the World. Lutefisk is a Norwegian dried fish, an item of sentimental immigrant nostalgia and distinctly an acquired taste. Madison has a large metal sculpture of the lutefisk beside the main road into town. (Another artistic item in town: a wooden sculpture with a sign that says INDIAN DONE BY LOCAL CHAIN-SAW ARTIST...