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| email: | abaxter@kumc.edu |
| entry: | Allegra is participating in the Miss Kansas Czech/Slovak Pageant July 26, 2008 in Wilson, Kansas. |
| Name: | Adrienne & Allegra Moore Baxter |
| email: | w38storis@comcast .net |
| entry: | Hello Zora!
Welcome to the Sunshine State!! Sounds like you've just relocated here. Should ever you hunger for the best Svechkova, knedliky, and zelli, hop in your car and come to Atlantic Beach near Jacksonville. My wife claims she's never had better. Yes, I'm the chef using old family recipes from Bohemia. I love receiving you creative and infromative Dumpling Newsletter. Glad to see it back after your vacation. |
| Name: | Ken Fisher |
| email: | smiddlebrook@hillcollege.edu |
| entry: | Hello Zora. We really missed The Dumpling. Glad you are back online and we look forward to seeing you again soon. Ed, Sharon & Sarah Middlebrook
West, Texas |
| Name: | Sharon Middlebrook |
| email: | smiddlebrook@hillcollege.edu |
| entry: | Hello Zora. We really missed The Dumpling. Glad you are back online and we look forward to seeing you again soon. Ed, Sharon & Sarah Middlebrook
West, Texas |
| Name: | Sharon Middlebrook |
| email: | paul.cervenan@gmail.com |
| url: | http://paul.cervenan@gmail.com |
| Name: | paul cervenan |
| email: | cabsmith@hotmail.com |
| entry: | This site is just wonderful! Very glad I found it. |
| Name: | Carol Babica Smith |
| url: | http://slisua.iquebec.com/zofran/zofran-po.html |
| Name: | Daniel |
| email: | miloshedeck@cox.net |
| entry: | Greetings to all our friends on this great newsletter website. I am the Bandleader of the Bohemian Knights from the Czech Hall in Yukon, OK where we dance every Saturday night on the best floating floor in Oklahoma. Come join us at Yukon's Czech Festival every year the 1st Saturday in Oct! |
| Name: | Milo Shedeck |
| email: | kazklan@cox.net |
| entry: | I love ur newsletter ! Norman Oklahoma |
| Name: | Dennis Steffen |
| email: | ok1jwc@yahoo.com |
| entry: | Thank you for your site, native Czech, currently living in Mississippi. I was searching for some home recipes with american ingredients when I stumbled upon this site. Very heartworming, only bread dumplings have been a terrible, still unaccomplished task, so if you can make them, I am more than impressed. Do toho!! |
| Name: | Alena Bloudkova |
| email: | georgekrejci@sbcglobal.net |
| url: | http://georgekrejci.com/ |
| entry: | Nice WEB site! |
| Name: | George Krejci |
| email: | VKONICEK@CENTURYTEL.NET |
| url: | http://magneticservices.com |
| entry: | Pain Relief Without Drugs
Over 300 magnetic health products at low prices. Sole proprietor, Vince Konicek, first generation Czech American. My father was, V. J. Konicek, of WRJN fame, he aired the Czechoslovak Hour for over 12 years in Racine, Wi. |
| Name: | Vince Konicek |
| email: | jimhatcliff@windstream.net |
| entry: | I WILL VISIT YOUR SITE AGAIN AS I FOUND IT VERY INTERESTING--PROUD OF MY CZECH HERITAGE. GRANDDAUGHTER OF LILLIE KASL KOVAR WILBER, NEBRASKA |
| Name: | Sheila Hatcliff |
| Name: | Beverly Kralicek Brayton |
| email: | bandgirl1970@yahoo.com |
| entry: | I would love to receive your news letter- my gramie passed away and with it went a lot of her recipes that were "in her head"- and watching her did no good because she measured by pouring in her hand! |
| Name: | Becki (Sodomka) Beck |
| email: | eolexa@netzero.com |
| Name: | emilie |
| email: | bouldese@yahoo.com |
| entry: | I haven't looked at your site in a long time. I am eagerly looking forward to visiting Plzen and Prague in 14 more days!! My daughter and 11 of her 8th grade classmates from Watertown, WI will travel to CR for a two week whirlwind tour!! I so enjoy listening to the Czech National Anthem. I also enjoy the webcams. Thank you for the time spent on the Dumpling!! |
| Name: | bouldese |
| entry: | Stumbled onto your web site while searching for Slovak potato dumplings, Mom was Slovak and Dad was Hungarian. Love your web site, and the music. |
| Name: | Janet Rosko |
| email: | psnack@seznam.cz |
| url: | http://trisoma.com |
| entry: | Howdy from the Left Coast,
An amik friend showed me your new site. Congratulations! I grew up in Houston and am an Aggie Aerospace Engineer and massage therapist in California. It was nice to see that the Klimas wrote a book! I remember going over to their house for dinner in the 70's, but lost contact (please forward to them if not inconvenient). I have a book also (on my site, not on pubmedcentral yet!); maybe we can trade when I visit? Best Regards, Paul Svacina http://trisoma.com http://santabarbarabodytherapy.com/ |
| Name: | Paul |
| email: | richanna612@yahoo.com |
| entry: | Anna and I have enjoyed each and every Polka Cruise that Zora, Maggie and Ernest have put together.. We made the first one and were hooked...Fellowship,Fun Cruise, Excursions in exotic places, food fit for kings/queens..Czech music outstanding, opportunity to meet new folks, enjoy old friendships and still have time for ourselves...AWESOME... |
| Name: | Anna and Richard Urbanovsky |
| email: | richanna612@yahoo.com |
| url: | http:// |
| entry: | Anna and Richard,are signed up and ready to go on the March 09 Polka Cruise..looking forward to the cruise, excursions, Czech Music and visiting with friends..We hope someone will play Taroky with us, we really enjoy the European Card game. counting down the days to departure..what a bonus, extra night in Ft.Lauderdale, Beach Party too...wow... |
| Name: | Anna and Richard Urbanovsky |
| email: | jmedek@verizon.net |
| entry: | Enjoy the newsletter, music, and news. Both parents were Czech and it brings back many memories. Having moved from Berwyn IL to central florida, I miss the Czech environment. Having problems downloading the dumpling news. One in 10 times it does not download and hangs up the computer. Any suggestions? |
| Name: | James Medek |
| email: | johnniep@webtv.net |
| entry: | thank you for a great news letter. my mother was a Huchan from schulenberg, tx. my daad was born in the czech republic in 1888 and came to texas in 1891. would lik to hear from any Pustka's. i live in rosenberg, tx. |
| Name: | johnnie pustka |
| Name: | johnnie pustka |
| email: | sonny7up@aol.com |
| url: | http://rockfordillinois.com |
| entry: | This is a wonderful website to learn about the Czech events,etc. thank you for that. My mother was Frances Kucera Novak from Cicero, Il and Marengo, Il and my father was Louis Novak, I am 100 per cent Czech and speak and write fluently, as least I used to but since mother died have not spoken or written too much. I am also the youngest child.
I have ordered the dumplings from this site and they are wonderful, Also bought a lot of the sausages from Crawford Sausage. If any of my relatives read this would love to hear from you. |
| Name: | Lillie |
| email: | kolacheone@gmail.com |
| Name: | milton polehna |
| email: | nmarx1@comcast.net |
| entry: | Zora, Just stumbled on your website while looking for a Czech recipe. I LOVE IT! The polka music really cheered me up. Both my parents are Czech and I love our heritage. They were from Wisconsin James Janda and Lucille Kadlec. I just ordered a cookbook, T-shirt and some folk songs. Thanks so much,
Nancy(Janda)Marx |
| Name: | Nancy (Janda) Marx |
| email: | schnupps@cox.net |
| entry: | Thanks for the great newsletter. Always enjoy, and the old czech cooking are not forgotten here in Santa Barbara, CA. Every Sunday... real potato dumplings, with the works are sizzling on the kitchen stove, while the aroma of orange blossoms, float thru the air & dancing with the unseen fragrance of fresh baked kolachy.
Marvin Velishek |
| Name: | Marvin G,Velishek |
| email: | baineh@aol.com |
| entry: | Wow!! That is a lot of information! Thank you, Zora and all for your tremendous accomplishment!
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| Name: | Helen Zemek Baine |
| email: | ingabella@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | This is a great website! The Red Dress polka playing- that was my Grandmother's favorite song!!
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| Name: | Chris Nemecek |
| email: | john.dvorak@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | I LOVE YOUR WEBSITE! SO MUCH information! Thank you for putting this up on the internet!
Great grandson of Vaclav and Mary DVORAK (nee DVORAK) John Dvorak |
| Name: | John Dvorak |
| email: | mumziestarkey@comcast.net |
| entry: | I wish I could spell in Czeck..
This is a WONDERFUL site. I will be listening, and reading and searching for months to come. Terry Louise (Komon) Starkey Tecumseh, MICHIGAN 49286 |
| Name: | Terry L Starkey |
| email: | yellowstonetrail@embarqmail.com |
| entry: | Looking for people who have known Kakuska's or are Kakuska's Thanks |
| Name: | Marilyn Goodrich |
| email: | glolad@mac.com |
| url: | http://omahaczechclasses.com |
| entry: | Your Dumpling Newsletter is absolutely marvelous!!
Every time I read it I enjoy it immensely. Please keep up the great job you are doing!! |
| Name: | Gloria A. Storch |
| email: | slovenskycuvacusa@gmail.com |
| url: | http://www.slovenskycuvac-usa.sampasite.com |
| entry: | I am looking for people, they own a Slovensky Cuvac or know about these rare breed. |
| Name: | Elisabeth |
| email: | rosyrossi@aol.com |
| entry: | Hello and Great website!!!!!!!!!
A Czech American in Houston, just found the website!! Thanks you!!! How do I get recipes??? Rossi Mako |
| Name: | Rossi Mako |
| email: | gjstelcik@hotmail.com |
| Name: | Gene J. Stelcik |
| email: | mjrutkoski@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | Hi!
I came upon your website while looking for a good roast pork recipe.I'm trying to keep our Czech food tradition going in the family.This weekend I'll be making roast pork,home made dumplings and sauerkraut for the family.I found your sold out cookbook something I'd like when it is out again in April. |
| Name: | Marilyn |
| email: | gjirasek@hotmail.com |
| entry: | This is a very entertaining wegpage. I especially like the polka music |
| Name: | George Jirasek |
| email: | vjs.37@verizon.net |
| entry: | we enjoyed reading your recent isssue of The Dumpling Newsletter, sent to us by a friend, please add me to you mailing list.
Thank you keep up the good work, regards P.S. it's fun to be able to read about other czech-american communities in other cities and states and learn of their activities, thanks again. |
| Name: | Vaclav Solfronk |
| email: | tpkrepelka@amerline.com |
| entry: | Greetings from Chicago. I'm hungry for some Jaternice & Jelita. Pramborovy Platsky |
| Name: | Tom Krepelka |
| email: | jeanettepribylsmith@gmail.com |
| entry: | This is just wonderful reading the article.
Thank you, Jeanette Pribyl Smith 1602 Kingston rd. Lincoln, Ne 68506-1525 |
| Name: | Jeanette Pribyl Smith |
| email: | johnkozlik@webtv.net |
| entry: | a very excellent newsletter. very educational. keep up the good work. |
| Name: | john kozlik |
| email: | jojo6499@aol.com |
| entry: | This is wonderful...Being an old Berwyn Illinois Bohemian this is like a breath of my grandma's kitchen..How do I subscribe??? |
| Name: | George Cejka |
| email: | bkouba@numail.org |
| entry: | Please let me know if you print more copies of Babi's Czech Recipes. Would love to purchase two copies, one for my husband and me and one to give to my husband's brother and wife. My husband's family comes from the Czech Republic and we traveled there this past Sept. Loved the country and food! |
| Name: | Sara Kouba |
| email: | bkouba@numail.org |
| entry: | Please let me know if you print more copies of Babi's Czech Recipes. Would love to purchase two copies, one for my husband and me and one to give to my husband's brother and wife. My husband's family comes from the Czech Republic and we traveled there this past Sept. Loved the country and food! |
| Name: | Sara Kouba |
| email: | chadima@comcast.net |
| entry: | Zora: Thanks for this fun newsletter. Joan at Penfield Press in Iowa City told me about it, and I have emailed your links to my family around the country, as I do a very basic family newsletter when I have time. Would love to meet you some day. Do you ever get to Kansas City or Cedar Rapids? I have an M.A. in journalism and am working on some Czech culture book projects. Didn't see Kansas City group represented,...did you know we have a Czech Consulate here? The Czech Consul is Sharon Velasek. To get her job she had to interview at Hradcany Castle.
God bless! |
| Name: | Kathryn (Kitty) Chadima |
| email: | lmsnow2001@yahoo.com |
| entry: | I would like to ask this question can anyone tell me where to go to find the kroje for the region of Krinoklat and where it is located..............Thank YOU |
| Name: | Lenore |
| email: | temk@comcast.net |
| entry: | What a website! I grew up in Berwyn, IL with Czech food and polka music on Sunday mornings. Since the Slovak Athletic Association has closed there is no gathering place. I miss the summer picnics, the potato pancakes at what used to be the Houby Parade and the people.
Times change but the memories live on! |
| Name: | John |
| email: | jenistac@verizon.net |
| Name: | Connie Jenista |
| email: | crochetmom@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | Recipes look great! I need to be able to see a recipe for bread dumplings. How do I do this? |
| Name: | Geraldine Psenicka Cochran |
| email: | crochetmom@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | Want a copy of your April 2008 Book.
Geraldine Psenicka Cochran 7010 Barrington Ct. #204 Woodridge, Illinois 60517 |
| Name: | Geraldine Psenicka Cochran |
| email: | Ldy12@aol.com |
| entry: | I'm so hungry after reading through your website! Thank you for taking the time to create such a lovely place on the internet! |
| Name: | Anne |
| email: | bailey11806@hotmail.com |
| entry: | I need a recipe for Liver Dumplings. Is There any place to buy them for a quick soup?
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| Name: | Laurie Cipra |
| email: | herb@fingerhutbakery.com |
| url: | http://fingerhutbakery.com |
| entry: | Just wanted the people that loved our family 'Babi Rye Bread" that........... Fingerhut Bakery will be back and selling Babi Rye, Houska and Kolacky again!
Check out our new web site, new logo and the addition of my son Adam Fingerhut (8 generation) who game me the inspriation to one day put our bakery together! We are doing it! |
| Name: | Herb Fingerhut Jr. |
| email: | bkayc_99@yahoo.com |
| entry: | I just came across your website, the names of the dishes sound awesome!!! BUT, how do I see the recipes???
Thanks, Brenda |
| Name: | Brenda |
| email: | burnssax@aol.com |
| entry: | I just stumbled upon your newsletter! I loved it! I am allways trying to educate myself more on my heritage. My mother was a Cernousek and my father is a Mach. Some of my other relatives were Somr (now Sommer after Ellis Island) and Jaros. Please put me on your e-mail list! Thank you!
Christine Burns (Iowa/Nebraska) |
| Name: | Christine Burns |
| email: | romanspolkaband@cox.net |
| entry: | Roman and I grew up in Nebraska and moved to Kansas in 1957. We are both 3rd generation 100% Czech. Can speak it, and read and write some. Our ancestors came from Moravia. We've had a polka band since 1974. In the guestbook, I saw where Duane Humlicek signed in and he is our son. He plays the bass horn and a button box. Just last Christmas, we found out that there is another Roman Humlicek in the Czech Republic, and my husband and he are related. His dad's great-grandfather and my husband's great-grandfather were brothers. We would like to go and see them and meet them in person, some day. Keep up the good work on your Dumpling Newsletter. |
| Name: | Alice Humlicek |
| email: | JKARPAC@VERIZON.NET |
| Name: | JOHN KARPAC |
| email: | weslynn63@aol.com |
| Name: | joe vonasek |
| email: | helsid.rodger@sympatico.ca |
| entry: | What a terrific site. I received this site from my cousin Helen Santavy, who lives in Virginia Beach, Va,USA.
I am Czecho Slovak who lives in the Niagara Region, Canada. I Also went to Czech Republic and met some of my family for the first time there. My family came from Milokost and Hroznova Lhota. My mother came from Petrezalka,across from Bratislava, Slovakia. My family names are Hudecek, Trojek, Vetricek. I would love to receive the recipes from the Czech menu and try them all. |
| Name: | Helen Vetricek |
| email: | johnbroz@comcast.net |
| entry: | I am czech desent. my grandfather taught me alot . told me about his childhood growing up in Bohemia, I want to discover more about my czech heritage, and learn more about the langauge, I can understand more czech than I speak. I am 51 yrs old, My grandfather was born in Bohemai 1898. died 1982. I miss him dearly. and I want to learn more about my heritage and speak czech . can you help me. sincerly John |
| Name: | John Broz Jr |
| email: | bsumb5503@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | Greetings from Grand Prairie, Texas
Enjoy the newsletter / keep up the good work |
| Name: | Ben Sumbera |
| email: | bathome@newulmtel.net |
| url: | http://www.the-bohemian.com |
| entry: | Don't always get to enjoy my dumpling from start to finish but today i Did! Always filled with delicious tidbits-no wonder it's called The 'Dumpling' News! Thinking of you in recovery, and admire how you get this together each time! always find something of interest to add The Bohemian pages. |
| Name: | Bobbi |
| email: | horanandhoran@bellsouth.net |
| entry: | Ok Zora...
You look very normal to me. This is a great website and I enjoyed reading through. Almost makes me homesick for the North, but not quite. Your webmaster and designer needs applause for the outstanding graphics and set up. Stacy Horn Lake, MS |
| Name: | Stacy |
| email: | cjneuzil@acegroup.cc |
| entry: | I just got your news letter web sight address and really enjoyed it. As I get older I really realize how much I enjoy being Czech and promoting my heritage. I wish I would have taught my children some of the Czech language, they do know a few words and now I am trying to teach my grandchildren. I have taught a kolace baking class for many years and really enjoy it.
Rebecca Neuzil of Spillville, IA |
| Name: | Rebecca Neuzil |
| email: | dbucher70@yahoo.com |
| entry: | I enjoyed reading your newsletter. Great Place!!!
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| Name: | Donna Bucher |
| email: | zigleo28@gmail.com |
| entry: | hope to see some interesting recipes that remind me of my childhood |
| Name: | Hedda |
| email: | gprasatik@att.net |
| Name: | Ginny Prasatik |
| email: | gbelia@comcast.net |
| entry: | The wines sound great. I think we'll come and visit. |
| Name: | George Elia |
| email: | martyistvan@thevillages.net |
| entry: | Such fun to read, see and hear. |
| Name: | Marty Istvan |
| email: | gbohuslav@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | I receive your email at my old email address---
bohuslav@brazosport.edu or bohuslav@brazosport.cc.tx.us I will drop that email soon so please change the email to: gbohuslav@sbcglobal.net |
| Name: | Gilbert Bohuslav |
| email: | FlorianJ@comcast.net |
| entry: | Have a GREAT 2008!!! From all the snow here in Stevensville, Michigan |
| Name: | John Florian |
| email: | rettachan@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | Zora,
Best wishes for a healthy and great New Year. Keep up the cheery and uplifting newsletter. Dekuji moc krat!!! |
| Name: | Retta Chandler |
| email: | czechalaska@hotmail.com |
| entry: | Great newsletter, see you in Wilbur in 2008! |
| Name: | Helen Vik |
| entry: | I would like to receive the Dumpling Newsletter My email address is lmsnow2001@yahoo.com (that is a small L).....I am trying to find out more about Bohemia...........My great grandfather was born in Bohemia. I would like also to list family names, but for some reason cannot find how to do this. Ondricek/Hopchek/Koeitzem Thank you and I enjoyed the first Dumpling newsletter in December. Thank you |
| Name: | Lenore Brassfield |
| email: | weezieflorida@yahoo.com |
| entry: | Glad you're feeling good. You are awake during your surgery, they TRY to keep you from feeling things, but you are not totaly out when they work on the heart. I received a pacemaker in October & I felt someone pushing & pushing on my chest; I guess it was when they were putting the wires in, but luckly I didn't feel pain. I found a web site, don't know which one, & watched a surgery the same as mine on a video. It's darn amazing what this little thing can do for us, I feel like dancing again. LOL |
| Name: | Louise Shuffield |
| email: | jo26jer@hotmail.com |
| entry: | So glad I found this site.
Both my parents were Slovak; John Hirchak born in Ramey, Pa.in 1902 and Anna Kocis born in Lambert, Pa. in 1912.There are many variations of Hirchak; Herchock,Hircak are two ways that his brothers spelled the name to make it easier for Americans to say it.I have a postcard like picture of my mother's dad tombstone in Bardejov.As my grandmother purchased the stone her name is on the bottom of it.Moros was her maiden name.I have a number of pictures of folks from the area but don't know who they are. If anyone hears of a trip to eastern Slovakia I would definitely be interested in hearing about it.There are many trips to Prague and the Czech Republic with day trips to Bratislava but hard to find one just on eastern Slovakia. Will share your site with others. Thank you for putting it together. |
| Name: | Joanna |
| email: | hvlack@hotmail.com |
| entry: | Looks like a great cookbook. I want one!!! |
| Name: | Harvey |
| email: | jppolcha@verizon.net |
| entry: | Great site, researching our Slovak heritage, We love those old recipies that have been passed down. We lost a potatoe and mushroom soup recipie from my gramdmother, when she passed a few years ago she took the recipie with her.No one in the family got it? Really miss it (and her), especially around the holidays! Looking to revive it somehow, it was started with a rue and had flour, mushrooms, cream and potatoes in it. Do not know much else!Tried to duplicate it, but no luck! Wondering if yours was similar? Her maiden name was Stanko, married is Polcha. We make homemade Kolachi,Halusky, etc... trying to pass them to our children. Any clues or ideas where to find such a recipie would be greatly appreciated! Have a great New Year! |
| Name: | Polcha Family |
| email: | blukco@earthlink.net |
| Name: | Bernard Lukco |
| email: | soldit.buffalo@yahoo.com |
| entry: | Greetings from West Central Wiscosin - Bloomer, Wi! Czech heritage is alive and well in this part of the country. Czech music every morning broadcast from WCFW radio 105.6 FM Chippewa Falls, Wi. 5:30 to 8:00am 7 days a week! The Milkers wake up to this fine tradition every morning. They say it helps the cows produce more milk! I am a transplant here from Fremont, Ne. along the edge of the "Bohemian Alps" of Nebraska. Vesele' Vanoce' to all of my relatives and friends back home! Enjoy your Website! Keep up the outstanding tradition and hard work! Appreciate it very much! |
| Name: | John L, Maly |
| email: | marylstmks@hotmail.com |
| entry: | hi, my name is dave novak.............originaly from the tabor minnesota area.........now living in baudette,mn.........my dad was bohemian and mom was slovak..........enjoy all the traditional foods especially the bobalky and the sourkraut juice soup.......also poppyseed rolls....love to re4ad stories of some of the experiences of the old days....dave |
| Name: | dave novak |
| email: | nadia_c_2001@hotmail.com |
| entry: | Vesele Vanoce!!!
I would like to thank you for the lovely site you have...I came across it today Dec.23. I have been searching the web for some Czech greeting cards, to email to my releatives in Czech..and I came across your site. Your site has brought back lots of Czech memories, I have left Czech in 1975 and have not been back since. Seeing your web site has lightened up my Vanoce and helped me remember my Christmas in Czech. Thank you so much.Hugs Nada |
| Name: | Nadia(Nada) |
| email: | maryanndecker@gmail.com |
| entry: | I have just found this website and I am thrilled. My maiden name is Horejs and my mother's name was Chicvara.
I have just started tracing my heritage on my own notebook. This has made my Christmas the best I have had in a long time. |
| Name: | Maryann Decker |
| email: | judyandmike@suddenlink.net |
| entry: | I'm interested in your cookbook. Both of my grandparents were Czech and lived just a field away from us. As a child I grew up spending a lot of time in my Grandparents kitchen on their farm. I loved everything that came from my Mamaw's oven and stove top. She did it all from her own butter and cottage cheese, to her kolache. I just finished making some poppy seed kolache last night for our Christmas get together. It is so sad to me that the recipes I enjoyed so much as a child is now a dying art. Thanks for being someone that is keeping it alive. |
| Name: | Judy Roten |
| email: | yeoldekettle@bellsouth.net |
| entry: | The New Orleans street-cars are manufactured in Czech Republic, and dressed out in New Orleans to resemble old time street cars.
The sounds coming from the cars are exactly like the cars in Prague. So, I get warm feelings each time I listen to a street car car on St. Charles or Barrone streets. |
| Name: | Robert |
| email: | vinglo11@verizon.net |
| entry: | VESELE VANOCE A STASTNY NOVI ROK OD
SW FLORIDA AMER CZECH SLOVAK CLUB. VINCENT KUCHAR CAUDY, TREASURER.. |
| Name: | Vincent Kuchar Caudy |
| email: | tereso_hernandez@yahoo.com |
| Name: | Terry Hernandez |
| email: | kbdobias@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | Good afternoon Zora -
Best wishes for your surgery on Thursday, and the merriest of Christmases to you and your family |
| Name: | Bill Dobias |
| email: | bkachik@verizon.net |
| entry: | Really enjoying the newsletter, good job
keep up the good work and keep it coming. |
| Name: | Benjamin A. Kachik |
| email: | dorothy@ecn.cz |
| entry: | What a delight to be sitting in Prague, high on the south ridge, overlooking Prague in Praha 4, and seeing pictures of Prague. We did have snow in Prague several weeks ago and I loved seeing the street cars discharging and picking up passengers on Ujezd (uu yes t) near the Castle or closer to the famous church of the Baby Jesus. -- I could go on and on because I love being and American who married a Czech and have been living here for 18 years! Thanks for the wonderful site. My husband's Czech/American daughters in America will love seeing and hearing this bit of Czech in a language they can understand. Thank You. Diky moc. Dorothy Mills Kohakova |
| Name: | Dorothy Mills Kohakova |
| email: | liam0317@aol.com |
| entry: | I cannot wait for the new edition of your cookbook! |
| Name: | Susan Cronin |
| email: | bearmakker@rap.midco.net |
| entry: | Hello to any and all. I have agreed to write a book about a Czech citizen that defected in 1983 with his young family. I have given myself 5-6 years to do this with the first three years given to study and research about the Czech Republic. I have just completed "The Coasts of Bohemia" and have many more to read. I also want to include, as a central theme, the thread of freedom that runs through all of us and how only a few are courageous enough to seek it out. I am also attempting to learn the language with the hopes of visiting in a few years. Anyone who can suggest good reading for my task - their suggestions would be welcome. My supervisor is of Czech ancestry and put me onto this site. Merry Christmas to all. Phonetically - Yeqooee! |
| Name: | Dean Muehlberg |
| email: | isler@pipeline.com |
| Name: | Sebastian |
| email: | jimdsl@yahoo.comm |
| entry: | Enjoyed reading your work. Please keep up the good work, there is so little of our culture available in an English format. |
| Name: | Vaclav Ledasil |
| email: | Zakasana@aol.com |
| entry: | Zora, please continue with the Czech news videos. They are wonderful. |
| Name: | CZak |
| email: | Zakasana@aol.com |
| entry: | Zora, please continue with the Czech news videos. They are wonderful. |
| Name: | CZak |
| email: | hatebreedprincess@yahoo.com |
| entry: | I just love all of this food. I've been looking for recipies so that I can try to recreate my Grandmother's cooking. She passed some of it on to us but kept most of it in her head. I could never get her to write it down for me. |
| Name: | Amy Chapek Placzkowski |
| email: | gmkral@msn.com |
| entry: | I found the 247 Polka Station and was listening to the music and scrolling thru the website and found the site. I wish I would have found this sooner. There is a lot of good information. My grandparents came from Czechoslovokia and I am always looking for information about the Czech traditions. Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Gary M. Kral |
| entry: | Great site. I just stumbled on your website
thank you so much |
| Name: | doug |
| email: | dberinger@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | Wow. I just stumbled on your website. So hard to find some of the sausages I remember as a boy. My grandparents and parents are all gone. I remember the czech sausage jaterince. (sp). And of course dumplings.
thank you so much |
| Name: | Denny |
| email: | elaineg@airmail.net |
| entry: |
What a wonderful surprise to find Sarah Middlebrook's picture today when I turned on my computer. What a joy she has been to the State of Texas and to the world. No one could be a better representative of Czech Heritage than Sarah, and I am so proud to know her. Good luck in everything you do in the future. Knowing you it will be a great success. |
| Name: | Elaine Gallagher |
| email: | jenantaus@hotmail.com |
| entry: | I am looking for a recipe for dumplings and sauerkraut that my Grandmother made on Christmas Eve. Do you have a recipe?
My Grandmother called the dumplings balbalki. |
| Name: | Jennifer Mayko Anthony |
| email: | mosoccer@verizon.net |
| entry: | Dear Dumpling newsletter Can you tell me how I can sign up for your newsletter and where I can find your recipes I grow up on Czech food starting from 6months old and am still craving it I have followed Czech restaurants till they close then find a new one Currently we go to Astoria Queens for food I live in New Hampshire and my very good husband takes me there at least twice a year Help Thanks so much and Have a wonderful holiday Joan Devault |
| Name: | Joan Devault |
| email: | raspberrypresslimited@yahoo.com |
| url: | http://raspberrypresslimited.com |
| entry: | Zora! I am so happy! In my genealogy searches on line through ancestry.com, I have found a descendant of the Kepka family. I was searching for authentication, regarding the brothers of Bart Kepka (my grandfather)...Mike, John, Vojtech, Vaclav, Rudolph and Joseph and of course a sister, Anna Kepka Karel. I only knew of their given names, no dates or anything else. Remarkably, my search took me to descendants of my father's uncle, Mike Kepka who had three daughters, Anna, Emma and Bessie Kepka. Emma married Edward Neckar, Sr., and his son, Edward Neckar, Jr. has confirmed my suppositions. Edward has confirmed that John and Marie Kepka owned the butcher shop on Crawford Avenue They had three sons, Joseph, Rudolph and John. John Sr., is my father's Uncle. But the one thing that tied us all together was Edward's mentioning that Anna (nee Kepka) Karel was his grandfather Mike's sister...also my grandfather's sister. I just had to let you know that a light has pierced this darkness and I am hoping that someone might read this posting and further light my way to success.
Thank you, Zora, for your kindness...for your wonderful newsletters...and again, for bringing the music of my heritage into my home. As my uncle George always said, "keep up the good works." God bless you and yours. |
| Name: | Betty Schultz |
| email: | raspberrypresslimited@yahoo.com |
| url: | http://raspberrypresslimited.com |
| entry: | Zora! I am so happy! In my genealogy searches on line through ancestry.com, I have found a descendant of the Kepka family. I was searching for authentication, regarding the brothers of Bart Kepka (my grandfather)...Mike, John, Vojtech, Vaclav, Rudolph and Joseph and of course a sister, Anna Kepka Karel. I only knew of their given names, no dates or anything else. Remarkably, my search took me to descendants of my father's uncle, Mike Kepka who had three daughters, Anna, Emma and Bessie Kepka. Emma married Edward Neckar, Sr., and his son, Edward Neckar, Jr. has confirmed my suppositions. Edward has confirmed that John and Marie Kepka owned the butcher shop on Crawford Avenue They had three sons, Joseph, Rudolph and John. John Sr., is my father's Uncle. But the one thing that tied us all together was Edward's mentioning that Anna (nee Kepka) Karel was his grandfather Mike's sister...also my grandfather's sister. I just had to let you know that a light has pierced this darkness and I am hoping that someone might read this posting and further light my way to success.
Thank you, Zora, for your kindness...for your wonderful newsletters...and again, for bringing the music of my heritage into my home. As my uncle George always said, "keep up the good works." God bless you and yours. |
| Name: | Betty Schultz |
| email: | john.dvorak@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | My ancestors, Vaclav, Marie, Vaclav and Frank were originally from Dudin, in the Czech Republic. They came to America on the SS Frisia in 1881 and ended in Muscoda, Wisconsin. My grandfather, William, and his brother Joseph were born there in 1893 and 1888 respectively. My father, Richard, was born in South Bend, Indiana, and I was born at Great Lakes, IL in 1954. I have enjoyed genealogy since 1997 and have found much interesting information about my Dvorak family, especially over the internet. |
| Name: | John Dvorak |
| email: | grammiemi@yahoo.com |
| entry: | What a super newsletter...can't wait to read more...keep up the good work |
| Name: | sandy carlson |
| email: | john.dvorak@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | I would like to know how to subscribe. My Dvorak ancestors are Czech and so I am doing research about their country. Let me know please.
John Dvorak in Michigan USA |
| Name: | John Dvorak |
| email: | crochetmom@sbcglobal.net |
| Name: | Geraldine Psenicka Cochran |
| email: | JHerma8130@cox.net |
| entry: | Interesting web site. We just returned from a three week visit to the Czech Republic.... wonderful time. We belong to the Czech/Slovak Club of SunCity/Sun City West, Arizona.
My wife will be ordering recipes etc. in the near future.. They sure sound good.... |
| Name: | Jerry Hermanek |
| email: | eericanjeremy@aol.com |
| entry: | Jasper, Alabama |
| Name: | Erica Tucker |
| email: | raspberrypresslimited@yahoo.com |
| url: | http://raspberrypresslimited.com |
| entry: | Hi Zora,
Your newsletter just gets better and better if that is at all possible. Thought it had exceeded the limits way back,but you continue nourishing us with your Czech recipes, informing us with up-to-date Czech news and entertaining us with delightful Czech music. Oh! it is great to make Knedliky by. I wanted to thank you for posting my Czech Ancestors' Kepka names...Thank you. Now I have another request. My Slavicek names. If you can, I'd really appreciate it. There wasn't any response, unfortunately, for Kepka, but maybe we'll hit the mark with Slavicek. I attempted to send this information to your personal email, but it keeps bouncing back. Thank you, Zora, for posting the Kepka names. Oddly enough, I didn't get one response. I still believe there is a connection to the Kepkas at the Crawford Sausage Shop, circa 1900 - 1925 - maybe earlier. A cousin of mine in her late 80s (with a sharp mind) stated emphatically that John Kepka who owned the shop, back then, was my father's and her mother's uncle. She also told me about my uncle George Kepka who served in the Flying Tigers (I already knew this). He was both of our uncles - brother to my father and her mother. She told me the name of the boat he went over on and came back on and how he went over as a doctor because all of the men joining the Flying Tigers were sent over as having different occupations...it was all so secret - at the time, no one, not even family members could know when or where they were to leave the states. In my online searches I found all of this information to be true, so I do believe she knows what she's talking about when she said John Kepka from the original Crawford Sausage Shop, now known as Daisy Brand products, was our great uncle. Anyway, if you have room in your next letter, would you mention the Slaviceks. I read about the Slaviceks in the old country in one of your recent newsletters so thought posting in your great newsletter may bring a response. From my mother's side of the family: Jan Slavicek, b. May 16 1821 in Dunoviz, Pisek, Czechoslovakia, d. Sept 11, 1895 in Chicago, IL. His wife: Anastasia Mrazek, b. June 16, 1842 in Pisek, Czech, they married abt. 1857 in Ceprovice, Czechoslavkia. Children: Albert, b.1854 - Only knew of 11 children, but Vojtech was listed in my grandfather Bart's obituary as a son. Joseph, b. 1861 John, b. 1863 Frank, b. 1862 Agnes, b. 1866, married James Fiala Anna (my grandmother) b. July 26, 1869, married Tomas Dvorak in Chicago, d. September 25, 1930 in Chicago. Michael, b. 1871 Marie, b. 1872, married John Mulac Thomas Slavicek (Slavik in some Census enumerations), b. 1873 Charles, b. 1876 Viktoria, b. 1878, married John Pribyl Antonie, b. 1881m. John Kalousek, second marriage a Mr. Serecino (name spelled different ways in obituaries). I can't locate Serecino in census enumerations. I do have the spouses of the male Slaviceks, if anyone reads this and it looks familiar. I remain ever so thankful, Betty email to post for any responses from here in the US or in Czechoslovakia: raspberrypresslimited@yahoo.com Thank you, again. |
| Name: | Betty Kepka Schultz |
| email: | alstryk@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | very interesting and informative |
| Name: | Al Stryk |
| email: | bzvacek@mindspring.com |
| entry: | I enjoy reading about the things I grew up with. I am originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa and have been to the Czeck Museum. It is fantastic. |
| Name: | Betty Zvacek |
| email: | fnped@aol.com |
| url: | http://www.WoodChef.com |
| entry: | Hello. I am an American of Czech descent. My grandparents on my Dad's side immigrated to the US and my great-grandparents did on my Mom's side. It is great to see all the links and hear the music I grew up with. |
| Name: | Fran |
| email: | davidslovak@yahoo.com |
| url: | http://www.czechandthensome.com |
| entry: | Thank you so much Zora for posting the Czech & Then Some cruise. We are all very grateful! The Dumpling Newsletter is awesome. You are very much keeping the heritage & music alive. |
| Name: | David Slovak "Czech & Then Some" Ennis, TX |
| email: | ckohl1@wi.rr.com |
| entry: | Your issues are always so colorful and informative. I now will have a cup of 'kava' with me . It's great!
Ahoj, Darinka Mojko Kohl |
| Name: | Darinka Kohl |
| email: | JimKucaba@aol.com |
| entry: | No Czech, Polish, or Lithuanian restataunts here in Phoenix, AriZOOna ... It's like living in HELL in addition to the fact that AriZOOna is HOTTER THAN HELL ! ... An old Bohemian like me could easily starve to death here in Phoenix, AriZOOna !
It's a little better sindeI can buy Prasky and lunch meat from Crawfore Sausage Co. in Chicago, and Dumplings from Jose's in Stickney, and I can get Vascecky's Bakery from Berwyn on the Internet now but I sure wish someone would open a good Czech restaraunt here. |
| Name: | Jim Kucaba |
| email: | jimztex@yahoo.com |
| entry: | Hello Zora, once again thanks for the great company from you, Maggie & Ernest on the Mikula Cruise. I also ordered your cookbook today. Great Newsletter!
Your Friends, Jim & April Zabojnik |
| Name: | Jim Zabojnik "Czech Harvesters Band" |
| email: | ckohl1@wi.rr.com |
| entry: | What a way to get up on Saturday moprning and listen to the Czech music.
Thanks |
| Name: | Darinka Kohl |
| email: | sharonmiddlebrook@yahoo.com |
| entry: | Zora:
The E-cards are a great idea. They are just beautiful. You do a wonderful job on The Dumpling Newsletter. We tell everybody about it everywhere we go. Thanks so much! Sharon, Ed and Sarah Middlebrook |
| Name: | Sharon |
| email: | guineveres.castle@yahoo.com |
| entry: | thank you so much for your website. My grandmother's family is of Czech descent and I remember her cooking when she would come to visit my 4 sisters and I.
It was a blessing today to find this website! |
| Name: | Jeanie Strunk |
| email: | heidijansa@yahoo.com |
| entry: | I have been looking for an old recipe my grandmother use to make. I think my uncle used to call it Jake? He said it was made with fresh mushrooms, barley.. I'm not sure what else. does this recipe sound familiar to you? |
| Name: | Heid Jansa |
| email: | jimdsl@yahoo.com |
| entry: | I was pleased to find a site that is dedicated to Czeck heritage. Good Work!!! |
| Name: | Jim Ledasil |
| email: | mrskosentowski@peoplepc.com |
| entry: | Thank you for such a beautiful website. Who is singing and playing on it? I would love to have that recording.
sending from Nebraska |
| Name: | Sharon |
| email: | sivaks@sympatico.ca |
| Name: | Milan Sivak |
| email: | KVEV117834@AOL.COM |
| Name: | KENNETH G. VEVERKA |
| email: | w38storis@comcast .net |
| entry: | Believe it or not, winter does come to north Florida (Atlantic Beach) and with it come time to cook and bake my favorite Bohemian dishes. Having been brought up in Cicero, Illinois in a Czech neighborhood, the essence of good food was imbedded into my genes. Now approaching my 70's, I still long for the wonderful meals and pastrys my family would serve on Sundays and on special celebrations.
So while "fishing on the internet to find a good recipe for Bohemian rye bread, I found this "treasure site." The opening web-page music almost brought tears to my eyes as I intantly remembered my grandmothers singing happy songs in their kitchens. As a boy I'd spend hours helping them knead the bread dough and carefully place the fillings onto the kolacky dough cut outs. When I freaquently return to the Chicago area, I always visit the quickly diminishing Bohemian neighborhood stores and restaurants where I eat my fill of duck, goose and pork dishes. I also shop for breads, pastrys and sausages like jaternice and cebulaty. My favorite is Crawford Sauge Comapny in Chicago on Crawford Avenue. It's been run by the Kepka family for three gernations and their pasky is to die for. They have a website in case you're intersted. This site will certainly be among my "Favorites" in my web browser. If only to hear the beautiful singer and music. Thank you for keeping the Czech "flame" burning bright. |
| Name: | Ken Fisher |
| email: | baineh@aol.com |
| entry: | I am and American-born Moravian from both sides--Dad was from Ratiskovice and Mother from Straznice. I speak, read & write Czech and Slovak "like a native". Learned English in a one-room, country schoolhouse outside of Johnson City, NY.
My dtr, Helene Baine Cincebeaux and I have been to Slovakia and the Czech Republic, among other countries, so many times we have lost count. Our hobby of collecting and exhibiting Slovak, Czech and Moravian folk dress has tsaken over our lives! We look forward to the Dumpling Polka Cruise to Mexico in Feb. Love your website! It is so meaningful to so many people. |
| Name: | Helen Zemek Baine |
| email: | faloola@moopy.org.uk |
| url: | http://www.moopy.org.uk |
| entry: | The Faloola get the warm feeling to think the mushloom season is on way! Happy dumpling to all! |
| Name: | Faloola Chong |
| email: | jan2105@netzero.com |
| entry: | Please subscribe me to your newsletter. Thank you. |
| Name: | janice Solorio |
| email: | artwmn@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | My sestra Joan and I went to Prague & Karlovy Vary this past April & were enchanted! We are going back next Spring.
My Dad and Mom had a Czech bakery in Cleveland Ohio for alost 50 years! I have the recipes but they need reducing and so far I have only done 1....pecan nugget cookies...one of my Dad's favorites. I want to make a cook book, too. or jars of the ingredients are cute & handy. I love your Czech selections and the design of your book. Lynn Chaloupka |
| Name: | Lynn Chaloupka |
| email: | bathome@newulmtel.net |
| url: | http://www.the-bohemian.com |
| entry: | Just voted for BNC! Thanks for making us aware and allowing us to help. Will pass along. |
| Name: | Bobbi McCrea |
| email: | plainjane038@windstream.net |
| url: | http://Hello Fellow Czechs! |
| entry: | My cousin Mary Lu just emailed this site to me. I am so excited! It brings back so many memories of the Sokol Hall and Bohemian National Hall in Cleveland, Ohio. All of the dinners, picnics, exhibitions, etc. It was so enjoyable to listen to the polkas while I was preparing breakfast this morning. We always had the Czech hour playing on the radio while my mother was preparing her wonderful Czech dishes. Thanks again for such beautiful web site. I am sure it will touch many hearts! |
| Name: | Jane Anderson |
| email: | vinglo11@verizon.net |
| entry: | Zora. I must tell you I look forward to each new letter you send out. It gives me great pleasure and I find it most interesting. I have sent your site address to many people so they can enjoy it too.Sbohem.. Vincent Caudy |
| Name: | Vincent Kuchar Caudy |
| email: | staceshep@gmail.com |
| entry: | I saw a bumper sticker on a car today that said "Got Pivo?" and then something in Czech.
I visited the Czech Republic this summer and would really like that bumper sticker. Do you know if you'll ever have them? Or where I could find one? Thank you! |
| Name: | Stacey - Memphis, TN |
| email: | Zora |
| url: | http://www.thedumplingnews.com |
| entry: | MAY GOD BLESS YOU with the very best for all the work you do for the Dumpling News Letter. Also the wonderful trips you, Maggie and Ernest organize. I have passed your web-site information to many friends and relatives here in U.S. and Czech Republic. All of us look forward to your next ISSUE. This is a fantastic way for all of us to keep in touch with each other.
MANY THANKS TO YOU! |
| Name: | Wally Foral Sanson |
| email: | jteborek@hotmail.com |
| entry: | i'm looking for a recipe for good rye bread. the bakery where we purchased the "babi rye" has gone out of business. if you book has this recipe with no preservatives, i will purchase a copy when it comes out again. please keep me posted.
thanks, joe |
| Name: | joe |
| email: | claudiamatcek@yahoo.com |
| entry: | Really enjoy your newsletter. I am from Caldwell Texas, The Kolache Capital of Texas. |
| Name: | Claudia Matcek |
| email: | jrsvancara@hotmail |
| entry: | We enjoy the dumplings news vary much. Our nephew Les Vilda e- mailed it to us. keep up the good work.
Joe & Joyan svancara Cayucos ca |
| Name: | Joe &joyan svancara |
| email: | albarnas@hotmail.com |
| entry: | thanks for coming to our Czech festival and giving us such nice coverage of our celebration. |
| Name: | Allison |
| email: | Fojimama@yahoo.com |
| entry: | Jim Fojtik, my husband of 40 years, and my best friend, is unable to read and play The Dumpling Newsletter. Tomorrow is our Fojtik Family Reunion and I always prepare dumplings and sauerkraut but lost my Cherished Czech Recipe book. My grandmother's cooksbooks are still available but are written in Czech and only my mother could read them! So, in search of the favored sweet sauerkraut recipe, I searched Google and was directed to your website. Thanks. What a beautiful website. I'll be back in touch for the newly-to-be-published cookbook! |
| Name: | MaryAnn Fojtik |
| email: | jan2105@netzero.com |
| entry: | Dear Zora,
I've missed your newsletters. I have a new computer and hopefully won't have the problems I had with the old one. Would you please add me onto your list so I can read about all the news each week. Thank you and you have the best newsletter. I just love it. Keep up the good work. God Bless! |
| Name: | Janice Solorio |
| email: | pbrunken@cox.net |
| entry: | Please email when the new cookbook is available. |
| Name: | Phyllis Svoboda Brunken |
| email: | wkonecny@ciaccess.com |
| entry: | Hi, Loved your website, first timers, interested in knowing more about the cruise that you are offering in the 2008 year. My father was born in czech and came over when he was 2 years old, my wife and I went to Czech Republic in Dec of 2005 during the Christmas Markets. Had a great time. Hope to hear from you soon we live in Ontario Canada does that effect the polka cruise at all. |
| Name: | William Konency |
| email: | timi@lakechelanwinery.com |
| entry: | Is your cookbook available for purchase now? |
| Name: | Timi Starkweather |
| email: | dmaxie42@hotmail.com |
| entry: | re |
| Name: | Donna |
| email: | crochetmpm@sbcglobal.net |
| entry: | Need to purchase your book. |
| Name: | Geraldine Psenicka Cochran |