There aren’t too many foods that really tug at my homesick Texan heartstrings the way kolaches do. Kolaches are a Czech pastry made of tender, brioche-like bread filled with sweetened cream cheese, ...

The kolache is a cosmopolitan pastry: well-traveled, adaptable. It was the Czechs who started stuffing fruit filling into folds of puffy, semisweet yeast dough, and they brought kolaches to Texas ...