Choteau, Montana—In the basement of Trinity Lutheran Church in the small town of Choteau, Montana, several ladies of Norwegian descent gather together to show me their family recipes from the old country. The smell of warm spices from a pot of sot suppe—a bubbling, syrupy fruit “soup”—fills the air, mixing with the scents of butter, potato dumplings, and sweet pastries in a dusty cloud of flour.
This Norwegian subculture exists throughout the American Midwest.
