Maggie, I've perused Ivar's book carefully and can find no mention of anything resembling Lutefiske ... I remember that he DID have certain standards! I actually have just come across an early mention of Ivar Hauglund that lends more credence to his first hand collecting of songs from the early days in Seattle. Here is a direct quote from Winifred I. Knox's thesis, presented to the Juilliard school of Music, 1945: "... Much credit is given to Ivar Haglund for the following songs. Ivar has been in and around the waterfront of Seattle for many years gathering stories and songs of Puget Sound. The songs included here were gathered when we poked around the fishing boats the other side of Railroad Avenue, and the skidroad section of lower Seattle." (note ... the "other side of Railroad Avenue" is where the viaduct is now. The "lower section of Seattle" refers to the skidroad area, where all the 'low life' folks lived, fishermen, stevedores, working men. It's where I loved to hang out when I was a kritter. It is also EXACTLY where Ivar placed his first, and most successful restaurant. CHEERS, Bob