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When life hands you grapefruit, make a pie
Note: After posting this recipe, some on statin medication wrote to chide me for the recipe. According to medical experts one taking statin medicine should avoid grapefruit. Check with a medical professional. Or wait until strawberries are in season and make the pie (as noted in the recipe) with strawberries and leave the grapefruits hanging on the tree. An old cliché is to resolve a life-delivery of lemons by making lemonade. But grapefruits aren’t lemons. Some people like them; others think they are bitter, sour and nasty. This sweet treat will change your mind or add to your pleasure…
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Institute launches daily writing group starting Thursday
The National Press Club Journalism Institute is starting a daily writing group for people who want to support each other’s work from wherever they are. The group will meet Mondays through Fridays on Zoom. You can come once or come often, whatever works best for you. The half-hour daily gatherings, from 11:30 a.m.-noon ET, will include a writing prompt, breakout sessions for a thoughtful discussion of work in progress, and an invitation to write for the next day. The group will serve nonfiction writers, whether you hope to turn a journal entry into a personal essay or you’re a newsroom…
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Broadcast/Podcast team to meet virtually at noon today
The National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Team will hold its regular First Thursday monthly meeting on April 2 at noon via teleconference. The teleconference dial-in is 800-747-5150, access code 662-7545. Participants are kindly requested to leave their phones on mute as the call begins until asked to speak up. Because of an expected large number of participants, we'll need to work to provide the best audio quality for the call. Since we are folks with interests in broadcast and podcasts, we can do that! The meeting is open to all Club members and the Team is always looking for the fresh…
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Show us your photos of work, life under COVID-19
Visitors stroll to the Jefferson Memorial on March 20. Photo: Alan Kotok While the COVID-19 pandemic enormously disrupts the lives of National Press Club members and staff, along with most everyone else worldwide where the virus reaches, the Club's Photography Team is asking members to help document this unique moment with your photos of working and daily life under the threat of coronavirus infections. Your photos can show how you're coping with remote work, such as your home office or studio set-up, video conferencing, juggling family life with work demands, and even your hand washing…
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Club Legion member Stucky's images enliven local office
Jim Oxford, National Commander of the American Legion, commended the director of the organization's D.C. headquarters on newly installed photographs decorating the offices during a visit last month. The director explained that all were taken by a National Press Club member who is also a Navy veteran and a Legion member. Photographer Rex Alan Stucky was hired by Louis Celli, Jr., executive director of the Legion's Government and Veterans Affairs Office on K Street, to produce 20 large-format pictures of dramatic Washington scenes to brighten the once-stogy walls of the seven-story…
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Black bean soup warms the soul, even if you lack ingredients
The days keep alternating from sunny with the promise of tulips to rainy, raw and gray during which the collective self-quarantine demands a trashy mystery, a fireplace or some soothing soup. Black bean soup is a perennial favorite. But you’re stuck at home with a pantry and some ingredients, but no black beans. What is one to do? Make soup with what you have. Any beans will do: pinto or kidney beans, chickpeas, black eyed peas, cannelloni or navy beans; even lentils or split peas (neither of which ever need pre-soaking). The basic format is the same. Of course, if you have…
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Follow breadcrumbs to a delicious meal
Stories over the ages have been told about breadcrumbs -- following a trail; feeding mynah birds, evading the evil witch in the forest. This is not one of those stories. Those who cook, professionally, for a family or for themselves often fall back on the same-old-same-old way to cook certain foods, especially vegetables. Boil them, roast them, steam them, cover them with sauce. But if you have breadcrumbs in the pantry, or dry bread you can hammer into crumbs, and a bit of hard cheese in the bottom of the frig, there is an interesting—potentially new to you--way to jazz up members of the…
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2020 Book Bracket: What title is bound for No. 1?
Woodward and Bernstein’s All the President’s Men is an early fan favorite in the inaugural 2020 Book Bracket, organized by the National Press Club Journalism Institute. The Institute is taking suggestions for the best - and your favorite - journalism books through Friday, March 27. Missing the excitement of March Madness? Help us discover the best in journalism books as titles you submit battle it down to the No. 1 title we want on our bookshelves. Dozens of titles, including She Said, On Writing Well, The Boys on the Bus, and Prisoner, have been nominated so far. To participate,…
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Missing March Madness? Try a new chapter
Right about now you would have been immersed in updating your NCAA Tournament brackets. Your email inbox would have been flooded with news about March Madness upsets. Sadly, it was not to be. But don’t despair. We have our own drive for a Final Four. Call it Book Brackets. We want you to submit a list of your favorite journalism books – current affairs, fiction, memoirs, textbooks, books about journalists, books by journalists. There is no limit, but please rank them in order of preference. The submission form is available online. You have until Friday, March 27. We then will seed them…
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