This Small-Town Kolache Family Wants to Become a Dynasty

Last fall, I returned to my hometown of La Grange for the ultimate small-town experience: watch a high school football game, ride the Ferris wheel with my crush at the county fair, and catch sweets tossed from floats rolling through the downtown parade. Except when I reached out my hand to catch a flying morsel, I hadn’t caught candy—I caught a kolache.I watched fellow paradegoers mow down their own kids to get the airborne pastries, and when I bit into my own hard-won catch, still warm from the oven, I wasn’t surprised about the fervor. The kolache came from Weikel’s.For more than forty years, Weikel’s Bakery in La Grange has been pumping out the traditional Czech pastries, made from a family recipe. The cream cheese…

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