{"id":35443,"date":"2016-11-30T03:08:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T10:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=35443"},"modified":"2016-11-30T03:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T10:09:22","slug":"the-czech-pastry-that-took-texas-by-storm-and-keeps-gaining-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/the-czech-pastry-that-took-texas-by-storm-and-keeps-gaining-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"The Czech pastry that took Texas by storm, and keeps gaining strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35444\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35444\" class=\"wp-image-35444 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Kolache.jpg\" alt=\"kolache\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Kolache.jpg 800w, http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Kolache-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kolache is a Texan delicacy made of yeast dough and usually filled with fruit. (Courtesy: NPR)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>(Wynne Davis, NPR)<\/strong><\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Ask any displaced Texan what they miss from home and they&#8217;ll likely list a few items: brisket, football, higher speed limits, tacos and kolaches.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;re lucky enough to have had a kolache, you know it&#8217;s a Texas staple, but if you haven&#8217;t had one, you&#8217;re probably still trying to figure out how to pronounce the word. It&#8217;s &#8220;ko-lah-chee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kolaches are Czech pastries made of a yeast dough and usually filled with fruit, but sometimes cheese. The ultra-traditional flavors \u2014 such as poppy seed, apricot, prune and a sweet-but-simple farmer&#8217;s cheese \u2014 can be traced back to the pastry&#8217;s Eastern European origin.<\/p>\n<p>As Czech immigrants founded communities during the 1880s in rural Texas, later known as the Texas Czech Belt, the flavors and fillings evolved. Pineapple, blueberry, strawberry and cream cheese are just a sampling of flavors available today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/11\/28\/502088150\/the-czech-pastry-that-took-texas-by-storm-and-keeps-gaining-strength\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: red;\">Click here to continue reading<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Wynne Davis, NPR) &#8211;\u00a0Ask any displaced Texan what they miss from home and they&#8217;ll likely list a few items: brisket, football, higher speed limits, tacos and kolaches. Now, if you&#8217;re lucky enough to have had a kolache, you know it&#8217;s a Texas staple, but if you haven&#8217;t had one, you&#8217;re probably still trying to figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35445,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35443\/revisions\/35445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}