Displaying 1 of 1 2000 Format: Book Author: Stokker, Kathleen, 1946- Title: Keeping Christmas : Yuletide traditions in Norway and the new land / Kathleen Stokker. Publisher, Date: St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society Press, ©2000. Description: xxiii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: Includes twenty recipes for holiday foods, including nine varieties of cookies: goro, krumkaker, rosetter, berlinerkranser, sandbakkels (sandkaker), fattigmann, hartshorn cookies, and julekage. Subjects: Christmas -- Norway -- History. Christmas -- United States -- History. Norwegian Americans -- Social life and customs. Norway -- Social life and customs. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-346) and index. Contents: Christmas in Norway -- Roman and Viking roots : how the Norwegian Christmas began -- Advent : preparing the way -- Christmas Eve : the focus of the feast -- Christmas Day and romjul : taking time for family and friends -- From New Year's Eve to Epiphany : new beginnings as Christmas ends -- The Norwegian American Christmas -- Pioneers : Christmas on the prairie, 1850-1900 -- The new American Christmas : twentieth-century changes -- Jul i vesterheimen : mirroring the Norwegian American experience -- Julebukking : Christmas masquerading Norwegian style -- Lutefisk, lefse, rømmergrøot : the culinary emblems of ethnicity -- From stagnation to revival : weathering the twentieth century. LCCN: 00056085 ISBN: 0873513894 9780873513890 0873513908 9780873513906 Other Number: 44461971 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 311422 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 0 Call Number: 263.915 Stokker Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1