Food Booths a featured attraction at 2011 Kolache Festival

By: Sharon Maggard

Those attending the Prague Kolache Festival this year will have plenty of choices for food. According to the food booth chairman, Tonya Clark, all booth spaces have been filled and there are 25 food vendors for the 2011 festival.

Five local booths will have kolaches this year, including the Catholic Church, Methodist Church, Mike Moore, FFA and Frank Martin Memorial. Kolaches sell for $9 a dozen. The Catholic Church and Mike Moore will also have klobase sandwiches and FFA has ribeye sandwiches.

There are two new booths offering some delightful things. Heavenly Treats has gourmet funnel cakes which have peanut butter cups, chocolate mint, turtle or caramel nut in the batter with melted chocolate drizzled over the top. Garcia’s Tacos has smothered and deep fried chimichangas, green chili cheese fries, churros and deep fried Snickers candy bars.

If that doesn’t get your appetite going, how about Indian Tacos? There are four Indian Taco booths, along with smoked turkey legs, roasted corn on the cob, baked potatoes, Cajun catfish, pulled pork, barbecue beef sandwiches, pork ribs, onion burgers, jumbo hot dogs, fried green tomatoes, ribbon fries, philly cheesesteak sandwiches, Rueben sandwiches, chicken on a stick, Dip N’Dots, fried Twinkies and kettle corn.

The Sundae Factory has waffle bowl Sundaes, ice cream in waffle or sugar cones, blizzards, floats, and slussies.

The Wine Pavilion has booked three wineries: Plainview Winery from Lahoma, Summerside Winery from Vinita and Grape Junction from Stroud. Summerside Winery has frozen wine slussies and Grape Junction has frozen wineritas. Besides wine, Plainview Winery also has gourmet pickles by the jar.

The Pavilion will also feature German roasted nuts with cinnamon sugar almonds and pecans and the Kolache Festival booth will have individual kolaches and klobasnecs.

Start your diets now so you can splurge on festival day.

If you are interested in become a Food Vendor at the Kolache Festival, please contact the office at 405-567-4866.