This was a breakfast item recently, and I have to admit, I have fallen in love with the koláč, (say "kolach") a traditional Czech pastry filled with sweet quark, jam and poppy seeds (mak). The word koláč simply means cake, and it can also be a savory snack, but usually the packaged rolls in the carb aisle come looking a little like a round, culinary flag, like the cukrářský koláč (fancy cakes) above.
Business Line newspaper claims that the Czech Republic produced 59,000 tons of poppy seeds in 2008, Turkey being their only real competitor in the poppy seed market. Below you can see a field of white poppy pods (next to miles of sugar beets) in the distance near Solany, Czech Republic, waiting to be harvested this past June.
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