Lutefisk fans relish the season

The dinner at Lakeview Lutheran Church on Madison’s North Side had just begun when church volunteer Dale Matthews burst into the kitchen yelling, “More lutefisk!”

To many people, that’s a counter-intuitive phrase. The Scandinavian dish — cod treated with lye, then boiled — is more often the butt of jokes than the cause of a culinary stampede.

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