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 Karl’s Cinnamon-Swirl Currant Bread

Wife Jan is interviewing job applicants over the next two weeks. The university will only cater groups of 10 and there will only be five for breakfast during the interviews. Jan asked me to cater the sessions—deviled eggs, a baked good, and fruit salad.

 Karl’s Cinnamon-Swirl Currant Bread

Karl’s Cinnamon-Swirl Currant Bread

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Karl’s Basil and Caper Deviled Eggs

Wife Jan is interviewing job applicants over the next two weeks. The university will only cater groups of 10 and there will only be five for breakfast during the interviews. Jan asked me to cater the sessions—deviled eggs, a baked good, and fruit salad. Today, I decided to go a bit Italian.

Karl’s Basil and Caper Deviled Eggs

Karl’s Basil and Caper Deviled Eggs

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Karl’s Thyme and Chive Deviled Eggs

Wife Jan is interviewing job applicants over the next two weeks. The university will only cater groups of 10 and there will only be five for breakfast during the interviews. Jan asked me to cater the sessions—deviled eggs, a baked good, and fruit salad. For today, I decided to make the eggs more French with thyme and chives.

Karl’s Thyme and Chive Deviled Eggs

Karl’s Thyme and Chive Deviled Eggs

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Karl’s Za’atar Deviled Eggs

Jan’s Ethno Breakfast has come around again. For the last one I had made 2 dozen Cajun deviled eggs. I did not want to make exactly the same thing again, so I thought I would make these Middle Eastern with za’atar.

Karl’s Za’atar Deviled Eggs

Karl’s Za’atar Deviled Eggs

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Karl’s Curried Deviled Eggs with Chives for a Crowd

I frequently make some food for Jan’s Ethno Breakfast. For the last one I had made a dozen  curried deviled eggs, that apparently disappeared in the first few minutes of the event.  They went over so well that when one of Jan’s Chinese students came to dinner, I did a variation of those deviled eggs. Jan told me that she was expecting 30 ethnographers to show up to this month’s event. She asked me to make 24 dozen—48 half eggs—because they were so popular last time.

Karl’s Curried Deviled Eggs with Chives for a Crowd

Karl’s Curried Deviled Eggs with Chives for a Crowd

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Karl’s Smoked Trout Deviled Eggs

I made some deviled eggs for Jan’s Ethno Breakfast—a local (Bay Area) meeting of corporate ethnologists. We had some leftover smoked trout and I thought I would experiment with it, in case  Jan asked me to make another dish for the next event. Plain deviled eggs are an infinite canvas for creative new dishes.

Karl’s Smoked Trout Deviled Eggs

Karl’s Smoked Trout Deviled Eggs

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Karl’s Potluck Curried Deviled Eggs

Being the cook of the family, Jan frequently asks me to make something when she needs a mitzva meal or a dish for a potluck. Last week it was Ethno Breakfast—a local (Bay Area) meeting of corporate ethnologists. Since all except the largest firms hire only one person in this discipline, this can be an isolated job—one anthropologist amongst an entire company of engineers and MBAs. Jan has been pushing this field for several years, so some of the local practitioners are her former students. Ethno Breakfast provides a community to share ideas and problems once a month.

Karl’s Potluck Curried Deviled Eggs

Karl’s Potluck Curried Deviled Eggs
Packed up and ready to go

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Karl’s Mac & Two Cheeses with Bacon & Leeks for a Crowd

Jan is going to another pot luck organized by NUMU Los Gatos. She and her students have been interviewing relocated American Indians who live in the South Bay—having moved to the city from various reservations in the 1950s, ‘60s, and 70s. Last time, I made a big pot of ham and beans. To switch things up, I decided to do larger than usual Mac & Cheese this time.

Karl’s Mac & Two Cheeses with Bacon & Leeks for a Crowd

Karl’s Mac & Two Cheeses
with Bacon & Leeks for a Crowd

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Karl’s California Fusion Hummus Wraps

Jan is having another potluck with her students. San Jose anthropology students present papers at the SWAA conference every year. To prepare them, the professors have them present before each other and two professors for feedback and suggestions. Since they come in on a Saturday to do this, food is usually involved.

Karl’s California Fusion Hummus Wraps

Karl’s California Fusion Hummus Wraps

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Karl’s Asian Salad for a Crowd

Jan, my wife, is an anthropologist at SJSU. When she can, she arranges for her students to do “real world” projects for their assignments. This semester, she will be and her students will be part of a team, organized by NUMU Los Gatos, interviewing relocated American Indians who live in the South Bay. Having moved to the city—from the reservations in the 1950s, ‘60s, and 70s—their stories will soon be lost to history, if they are not recorded now.

Karl’s Asian Salad for a Crowd

Karl’s Asian Salad for a Crowd

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