The only time I've had ever lutefisk, it turned out to be a gelatinous foul-smelling glop. Apparently it's another of those things that has to be caught within a few seconds of being done or it simply goes to hell. My sister's husband loved it. That's the way his family had always had it. Subsequently, I learned that there are a lot of people who are under the impression that lutefisk is supposed to be glop because whoever was in charge of cooking it never caught it in time. Done right, it's supposed to be marvelous. But that's only what I've heard. No personal experience there. Fish that you pour on your plate, looks like lumpy, badly congealed Knox gelatin, and smells like something died a horrible death is one item of seafood I think I can forego. I would like to try it sometime when it comes out right, though, just to be able to say I've done it (my father was a Scot, but my mother was a full-blooded Swede).

Don Firth