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This is the "web log," blog, homepage, portal for Steven D. Krause, aka Steve, aka sitedad. I'm a professor teaching writing classes at Eastern Michigan University and my family and I live in Ypsilanti, Michigan. You can learn more than you want to learn about me by clicking on "about." You can contact me by sending email to skrause at emich dot edu.
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Category Archives: Food
On Homemade Pizza
Pizza is interesting in that you have connoisseurs who fetishize all aspects of this relatively simple food, and you also have people whose concept of pizza is limited to Dominos or Little Caesars. If you are a connoisseur, chances some of what … Continue reading
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Dear Ticketmaster et al
Dear Ticketmaster, Tony Bennett, and Deathcab for Cutie; I’m writing about a concert my wife Annette and I attended on August 24 at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, a show that was supposed to have featured the band Deathcab for … Continue reading
Posted in Family and Friends, Food, Life, Music
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Whole Foods is just another grocery store– shocking!
Gawker has published a couple of stories about disgruntled and generally former Whole Foods employees, here and here. The short version is some of these folks are not happy about Whole Foods behavior toward its employees, the environment, recycling, and … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Food (W)hole, Shopping
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#cccc11 recap
This is kind of scattered because I started it over a cup of coffee Monday morning and finished it Wednesday morning before meeting meeting meeting/grading grading grading. I’m super DUPER busy with wrapping up the winter term. The last day … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Family and Friends, Food, Scholarship, The Happy Academic, Travel
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Another Christmas, more Pepper Nuts (albeit late)
We had a later than usual Pepper Nuts session here at the Krause-Wannamaker house today. We were in Florida for Christmas proper this year, and, because of changes on the Krause side of things at Thanksgiving and less than great … Continue reading
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What Thanksgiving Gave
Annette and Will and I had a Thanksgiving of just the three of us and at home for the first time in…. heck, I think the first time ever. There was one year quite a while ago where I recall … Continue reading
Posted in Family and Friends, Food, Life, Movies
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Hey, that’s my farm!
Well, “my farm” may be a bit of a stretch, but just the other day, someone via Facebook posted this New York Times article about Tantré Farm, “Field Report: Will Work for Food.” Tantré Farm is where Annette and I … Continue reading
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On Pickling and Pizza-ing
School starts again next week (after Labor Day), and I’ve mostly been figuring out the classes I’ll be teaching this coming term, along with a few other miscellaneous new term things. But I thought I’d pause for a moment to … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening, Life
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Notes on Grown-Up Camp and the End of Summer (more or less)
We have returned from just shy of a week at “The Inn” at “The Homestead,” which is up in Glen Arbor, Michigan. Here’s a link to a Flickr set of pictures. Some thoughts more or less as they occurred on … Continue reading
Posted in Family and Friends, Food, Travel
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Canning/Pickling Experiment, Part 1
I’m not entirely sure what inspired this, but I got an itch recently to try to do some canning and/or pickling. It’s one of those cooking/foodie things I’ve been interested in for a while now, and when we were in … Continue reading