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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Colin Powell’s impact on history was profound, complex and tragic.

Then, on the rest of the menu, District attorneys risk losing their jobs by refusing to prosecute controversial GOP-led laws; the District of Columbia has suspended most of its Metro trains over a lingering safety issue that caused a dramatic derailing last week; and, two former security services executives pleaded guilty to rigging bids for US security contracts.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italy’s fascist parties suffered an embarrassing blow after center-left forces won mayoral races across the country; and, France announced its ambassador to Belarus has been forced to leave the country.


All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

- Ernest Hemingway
"A Moveable Feast"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/19/2058959/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Col Vindman noted that Trump has not been held accountable for his attempts to steal the 2020 presidential election, and 'he should suffer the consequences.'

Then, on the rest of the menu, Bitcoin-mining power plants raise the ire of environmentalists; the aging South Texas water system meets a growing population; and, at least thirteen auto safety rules are years overdue.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has offered to reinstate a tenured professor who was acquitted of ties to China; and, France commemorated the 1961 massacre of Algerians on the streets of Paris.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."

-- Julia Child

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/18/2058675/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe won back his full pension as part of a settlement of the lawsuit arising from his vindictive political firing by Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, nursing schools see a rise in applications, despite COVID burnout; the Texas abortion law is shutting down an avenue to the courts for teens; and, the wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a US government vessel, has been found.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the lawyer representing Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi said authorities have imposed a gag order on him; and, seized guns have been melted down and turned into a children's playground in Peru.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”

― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/15/2058182/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in their strategy to gut and replace current voting laws, Republicans will manufacture voter fraud where they have not found any.

Then, on the rest of the menu, new FDA guidelines spell out lower sodium goals for the food industry; a district judge ruled Maine can bar religious exemptions to its healthcare worker vaccine mandates; and, the same people who have no problem with offshore oil rigs darkening the horizon, will complain Biden’s offshore wind farms are an unrelenting eyesore.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN has begun vaccinating people in the eastern Congo against Ebola; and, a Holocaust forum in Sweden is looking at social media’s role in the current steep rise in antisemitism.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”

-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/14/2057963/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Senate report shines a light on the role GOP representative Scott Perry from Pennsylvania played in Trump’s insurrection plot.

On the rest of the menu, Trump has a long and sordid history of mysterious fires at his properties; the House GOP blames the worker shortage on unemployment benefits that expired over a month ago; and, Montana Democrats filed a lawsuit against a law that criminalizes voter registration drives on college campuses.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European Central Bank governing council member Peter Kazimir has been charged with bribery, but denies any wrongdoing; and, a well-respected Congolese journalist has been granted a provisional release after a spurious terrorism probe was dropped.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”

-- Shauna Niequist
"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/13/2057760/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump will attempt to sue the National Archives in an effort to withhold White House documents from the January 6 Commission.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump-backed candidates face scrutiny after minimal vetting; Texas governor Greg Abbott ordered a ban on private company vaccine mandates; and, a parent has sued a southeastern Wisconsin school district after her son contracted COVID-19 from a classmate.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Moderna has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine; and, New Zealand seeks to ramp up COVID-19 vaccinations amid persistent cases.


All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

- Ernest Hemingway
"A Moveable Feast"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/12/2057551/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, nearly every state is re-mapping their districts after the 2020 Census, and that will impact Black and Brown communities across the country.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Navy nuclear engineer and his wife were charged with espionage for trying to pass secrets in a peanut butter conspiracy; the number two House Republican, Steve Scalise, refused say multiple times whether the 2020 election was stolen, or not; and, the decline in hydropower in the West has put extreme strain on power grids during the drought.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italian lawmakers called for measures to outlaw pro-fascism groups after ten thousand extreme-right anti-vaccine protesters rampaged across Rome; and, lava blocks the size of three-story buildings are being ejected from the La Palma volcano.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."

-- Julia Child

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/11/2057252/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, high ranking government officials acquiesced to Trump's illegal pressure to overturn the election, raising the question of how Attorney General Merrick Garland will hold those officials accountable.

Then, on the rest of the menu, President Biden will restore three national monuments that were capriciously cut by Trump; one of the whacko Josephine County, Oregon county commissioners said to ‘ask God’ about the COVID-19 vaccination because ‘you can’t trust doctors’; and, a Microsoft report revealed that Russia is behind almost sixty percent of all detected state-backed hacks.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greek lawmakers ratified a major defense pact with France; and, far-right Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz made clear he did not plan to step down after anti-corruption prosecutors said he is a target in a bribery investigation.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”

- Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/8/2056830/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Senate Judiciary Committee released new testimony and a staff report on how Trump pressured the DOJ to overturn the 2020 election.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the cybersecurity lawyer charged in the Durham probe has demanded more information about the case; the Department of Justice is poised to sue contractors who don’t report cyber breaches; and, the Federal Trade Commission sent notices to seventy for-profit universities that "significant financial penalties" could be imposed if the schools deceive students about how successful their graduates were.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO expelled eight members of Russia's mission to the alliance who were "undeclared Russian intelligence officers;" and, German police carried out large-scale raids on a criminal network suspected of laundering $162 million dollars.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”

-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/7/2056666/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mitch McConnell Is ‘daring Democrats to reform the filibuster.’

On the rest of the menu, the Treasury Department told Arizona’s governor that his state could not use federal funds to pay for programs aimed at undermining face mask requirements in schools; Pennsylvania charged Energy Transfer LP with forty-eight counts of environmental crimes; and a group of prominent attorneys filed an ethics complaint against a former top Justice Department official who is under investigation for plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union unveiled a new strategy to combat growing antisemitism in Europe; and, four-wheeled autonomous mobile robots, powered by artificial intelligence, are giving Greece’s postal service a major speed boost.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”

-- Shauna Niequist
"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/6/2056426/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays