Northern Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range is known for more than iron ore. It has its own unique culinary traditions brought here by immigrants with some 40 different national identities who poured into this region around the turn of the 20th century. One of the most famous Range treats is potica, pronounced po-TEET-suh. Once made by mothers and grandmothers, it can now be found every Christmas at Range church bake sales and, year-round, at Sunrise Bakery in Hibbing and Tobie’s in Hinckley. Britt Aamodt visited Virginia’s Pep’s Bake Shop, where potica bakers Paul Prebonich and Steve Gustafson have been making potica every Friday for decades.
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