Lutefisk belongs to Christmas’: Norway’s polarizing festive dish is experiencing a revival.It’s a tough sell for what’s supposed to be a festive meal: a pile of translucent jelly with a questionable aroma. But, as I prepared to celebrate Christmas in my native Norway for the first time in at least two decades, I found myself once again facing the food that plagued my childhood December 24s: lutefisk. Pronounced loo-tah-fissk, the traditional Norwegian festive dish made from dried whitefish has a smell that suggests that the fish has been through something traumatic.