Beatrice Ojakangas (née Luoma; born 1934[1]) is an American cookbook author, writer, television cook, and inventor of pizza rolls, from Floodwood, Minnesota.
Of Finnish heritage, Ojakangas has focused on Nordic and Scandinavian cooking, and particularly preserving its culinary traditions in the United States.
[4][5] Beatrice Luoma grew up in a Finnish American family in Cedar Valley Township, Minnesota, near Floodwood.
[6] Her interest in food led her to refine her baking skills over the course of several years in order to win the 4-H contest at the county fair.
[2] While attending the University of Minnesota Duluth, she met her husband Richard Ojakangas; she studied home economics, graduating in 1956.
[3][9] Ojakangas has written for a number of nationwide American magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, Southern Living, and Bon Appétit as well as worked as a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
[11] In 2016 Ojakangas was inducted into the Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame[3] and received the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award in the Memoir category the same year.