Lobster and lefse: Fargo Food festival features a puzzling pairing
Fargo Rotary Club event gives proceeds to Rape and Abuse Crisis Center, YWCASome foods always sound good together. Milk and chocolate chip cookies. Bacon and eggs. Pizza and beer. But lobster and lefse? Randy Long hopes Fargo foodies grab onto his puzzling pairing.
By: John Lamb, The Forum
Some foods always sound good together. Milk and chocolate chip cookies. Bacon and eggs. Pizza and beer. But lobster and lefse? Randy Long hopes Fargo foodies grab onto his puzzling pairing.
Long is behind the Fargo Rotary Club’s Lobster and Lefse Festival from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. today and Saturday at Newman Outdoor Field in Fargo.
So why lobster and lefse?
“Alliteration,” Long said, smiling.
Sitting at Atomic Coffee last week, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, he already seemed dressed for such a festive colorful event.
“It’s a celebration of what is near and dear to our hearts,” he said, referring to lefse, the Norwegian flatbread staple. “As exotic as lobster is to Fargo, (beyond) Minneapolis, lefse is to the rest of the world.”
At the Fargo fest, eaters can choose from a variety of seafoods or standard stadium fare. A lobster meal, consisting of a 1¼-pound steamed Maine lobster (called “a quarter”), a sheet of Freddy’s lefse and an ear of corn are $20.
Other seafood selections such as clam strips, popcorn shrimp, beer-battered shrimp, crab cakes and salmon cakes will also be available, ranging from $3 to $20.
Seafood Sand Dollars — prepaid punch cards — are still available online in $20 increments.
Hotel Donaldson Executive Chef Tim Fischer is developing a lobster and lefse roll, a twist on the standard New England lobster roll.
Games Galore will set up inflatable games for kids. There will be music from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. by Dave Herzog’s Island Steel Drums both days. Pucker up plays at 7 tonight followed by Killer Spin at 9 p.m. Billy D and the Crystals will play at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Fresh Lobsters will be flown in from the Maine Lobster Company. Long said the toughest part of the event is predicting how much food is needed. He’s anticipating 6,000 attendees, a number he said he’d be ecstatic with.
Fargo-Moorhead AM Rotary Club will direct proceeds from the event into programs for the Rape and Abuse Crisis Center and the YWCA. “The community gets this right back,” Long said, promising a “funtastic time.”
Michele Cox manager of Freddy’s Lefse, said she thought Lobsters & Lefse was “a unique idea.” The West Fargo baker is supplying all the lefse for the event.
“I think it will be interesting,” Cox said. “Everything goes with lefse.”
Reach Lamb at (701) 241-5533. The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and the Herald are owned by Forum Communications Co.
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