Taste of Norway Hostfest, an annual fall festival showcasing Norwegian food, music, and crafts, will be held from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at St. Olaf Lutheran Church, 1233 Douglas Avenue in Montgomery.
The public is invited. Admission and parking are free.
The sponsor is Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 5-472, a Norwegian-American cultural group which meets monthly at the church.
At noon, lunch will be served and a craft market opens. Volunteers will demonstrate cooking lesfse, potato flatbread; krumkake, a waffle cookie; rosemaling, folk painting on wood; hardanger, Norwegian-style embroidery; and Scandinavian jewelry and knitted items that will be available for purchase.
The lunch menu will include homemade traditional Norwegian food including smørbror, open-faced sandwiches; and lefse.
Desserts will include bløtkake, cream cakes; fruit soup; lingonberry bars, almond bars, Cake Kringla, ice cream with lingonberries and Kardamom rolls, cake and cookies.
For more information, call (630) 553-7389 or visit polarstarlodge.com/5.html for more information.
—Al Benson