CEDAR RAPIDS — Those lined up for kolaches this weekend at St. Ludmila Catholic Church may not realize that without the help of 81-year-old volunteer Ed Kuba, they might be kolach-less. The annual ...

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CEDAR RAPIDS — It takes an army to make the 120,000 kolaches to be sold starting Friday at the St. Ludmila Kolach Festival. One of the army's units is the rhubarb committee. A hint of cinnamon and the ...

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Volunteers were working overnight and into late Friday morning baking, preparing and selling kolaches as part of St. Ludmila Catholic Parish’s Kolach Festival. Cars were ...

ELY, Iowa (KCRG) - Kevin Bahr knows he has some critics. Every person who has tasted a kolach has their own opinion of how the Czech pastry should be made. “They go, ‘Oh, that’s not a kolach,” Kevin ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Hundreds of volunteers will be out in force over the weekend to celebrate the annual Kolach Festival at St. Ludmila’s Catholic Church. Teams are expected to bake thousands ...

If you've been to a kolache festival, you may have heard kolache pronounced different ways. Is it kolach? Kolache? Kolaches? We went to Kolache Rolf's in College Station to set the record straight.

“Basically, they’re dough with stuff in it,” observes Dawn Orsak, Czech-Texan and Czech food expert. “Almost every culture has some variation of that.” That said, however, Orsak (coordinator of the ...