If you’ve driven through the Central Texas city of West, odds are you stopped for a kolache at one of several bakeries along Interstate 35. Texas Wants to Know took a road trip West to learn how the city has maintained its strong Czech connection and how kolaches evolved from a fruit-filled pastry to include the meat-filled goods we know today.
The kolache is a Texas morning staple right up there with breakfast tacos and chicken-fried anything. And most Texans know the place to go for kolaches is the city of West.
"All the young people that are here were taught by their grandparents, just like I was," lifelong Central Texas resident Mildred Dokupil said."I didn't speak a word of English, so I was in the first grade and it was difficult. So it's just a tradition that's been carried on through food, dance, culture and stuff like that. We just love it."
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