Cetoraz and How We Connected - a Dedication

In 2003 I had the good fortune to visit Cetoraz, Czech Republic, the ancestral home of our line of the Vacek family.  I traveled with my daughter, Marla and her husband John Broadfoot.  We didn’t have any contacts lined up there.  We just sort of winged it.  I knew Cetoraz was the ancestral home so we drove in and started looking around.

Hovezi Guláš Recipe - Pavel Jareš

You asked me for the goulash recipe. There are many variants of the meal cooked in our country. You can find Segedin (Segedínsky guláš - Pork in a delicate sauce containing sauerkraut and a little half-and-half), Jeleni (venison), Kanci (wild boar), Veprovy (pork), Chaluparsky (cottage), Fazolovy (beans), Hospodský (innkeeper), Kruti (turkey), Jarni  (spring) and so on. But the best one is Hovezi (beef) goulash.

Cetoraz History - email from Pavel Jareš

I´m saying hello to you from Cetoraz and I would like to give you more information about our village.  Cetoraz was founded in the 13th century. There were established many villages after Czech kingdom formation at that time. Czech peers built a service yard here in free space and peasants´ houses grown gradually around.