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Northwest Favorite Recipe

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Dear Mr. Civil:
We recently had dinner with a friend who is a Seattle native. He served us an appetizer that he claimed was a "Northwest favorite." I believed he called it something like Lewd and Fish. We have to admit it was like some kind of fish and certainly was lewd. We ate it but wonder if people actually eat this stuff, or was our friend trying to poison us?
---Still Tasting It



My Dear Tasting It:
Ha! The delightful dish your Seattle friend treated you to is called "lutefisk", a favorite Northwest treat. This is a dish that was introduced here by the city founders, the Johnson brothers, who discovered the dish while cleaning out the holding tank in their fishing boat in Ballard. What you ate was fish soaked in lye and salt and then left to bake in the sun for several months. Ollie and Swede would dare people to eat the stuff for an
appetizer and Swede figured it they lived through the experience, they would live through Ollie's cooking.
And yes, you were poisoned, but apparently you lived through it.
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Seattle Newspaper
This is from the 1st Westby cookbook.
Westby Branch: Howard

 

 

 

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