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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s officially subpoena time on Capitol Hill.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal appeals court upheld Indiana University’s vaccine mandate; an Idaho lawmaker tried out the Sovereign Citizen defense in her ethics trial over publicizing the name of a woman who accused another lawmaker of rape; and, Oregon officials reached a $90 million settlement with the parent company of Victoria’s Secret that guarantees an end to its “culture of harassment and fear.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US ordered twenty-four Russian diplomats out of the country by the third of September; and, a court in Belarus sentenced a journalist to one and half years in prison for insulting Lukashenko and slandering the police.


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/2021/8/3/2043514/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Rep Jackie Speier, who was shot by members of the Peoples Temple during the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, compared Trump to cult leader Jim Jones

Then, on the rest of the menu, one in five college dorms, prisons and military barracks had no data at the end of the Census count, just as the Trump administration planned it; the CDC will not recommend a national lock down, despite the surge driven by the Delta variant; and, Philadelphia election officials rejected a 'forensic' audit request by a January 6 insurgent state senator.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Olympic sprinter said she believes her life is in danger if returned to Belarus, and will seek asylum with the Austrian Embassy in Tokyo; and, New Zealand apologized for the historic “Dawn Raids” to deport Pacific Island people during the mid-1970’s.

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/2021/8/2/2043277/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a vaccine mandate helped defeat smallpox at the start of the Twentieth Century.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the head of the St Louis County, Missouri Dept of Public Health says a GOP candidate for the US senate encouraged physical threats and racist slurs from a mob of Trump supporters; Pacific Gas & Electric will face criminal charges over a deadly California wildfire last year; and, over four thousand flight attendants faced unruly passengers in first half of 2021.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an investigative media outlet is fleeing Russia to escape the crackdown on Putin critics; and, the State Department lodged concern over harassment of the media covering the floods in China.

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/2021/7/30/2042845/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Tim Ryan roundly criticized Kevin McCarthy on the House floor for mocking the House mask mandate.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a statue commemorating York, the enslaved Black member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was toppled overnight at Portland, Oregon’s Mt. Tabor Park; insurgent Representative Paul Gosar introduced an amendment to defund the Capitol Police; and, a federal appeals court ruled Trump and his kids cannot arbitrate a fraud lawsuit accusing them of a marketing scam that targeted the poor and minorities.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Houston man plead guilty in a scheme to sell $317 million worth of bogus masks to the government of New South Wales Australia; and, French police recovered most of the $2.37 million worth of jewels stolen from a high end Parisian boutique by an armed robber who escaped on a stand up electric scooter.

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/2021/7/29/2042639/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “we all know who hired the hitman for the January 6 riot.”

On the rest of the menu, the far-right wing of the US House Republican caucus endorsed a bill that would ban the teaching of basic constitutional history; the State Department is investigating how a swastika was carved into an elevator near the Special Envoy’s office; and, one hundred forty US lawmakers urged the EPA to reinstate California’s authority to set vehicle emission standards.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four Russian oligarchs are suing a British journalist and HarperCollins over her book about Putin they say defames them; and, Canadian border guards voted to strike just days ahead of reopening to fully vaccinated US tourists.

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/2021/7/28/2042416/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, according to Washington Post reporters Leonnig and Rucker, Trump “gleefully” watched his supporters attack the Capitol on January 6, while Mike Pence didn’t trust some of his Secret Service detail.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a seventy-five year old Colorado man hit by a taser says the officer also choked him with a knee on his neck; former US Senator Barbara Boxer was assaulted and robbed in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland, California; and, water levels at the Great Salt Lake in Utah have dropped to a historic low.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Samoa’s first female prime minister has finally been able to take office after a three month constitutional crisis; and, Bosnian Serb politicians decry a resolution outlawing genocide denial.


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/2021/7/27/2042200/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein insists Donald Trump is our own American war criminal.

Then, on the rest of the menu, several states scaled back their reporting of COVID-19 statistics, just as cases across the country started to skyrocket; low oxygen levels off the Oregon coast have raised fears of marine dead zones; and, environmentalists, conservationists and scientists urged the state of Maine to protect the last of the wild Atlantic salmon in US.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French parliament approved a law requiring special virus passes for all restaurants and domestic travel; and, an "unusually large meteor" rumbled over southern Norway on Sunday, and a bit of it may have hit not far from the capital, Oslo.

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/2021/7/26/2041933/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, because of McCarthy’s side show, Nancy Pelosi is considering adding more GOP members to the January 6 Commission.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the energy giant at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio, agreed to pay a $230 million bribe so prosecutors won’t begin a criminal case against the company; security has been beefed up around a Pennsylvania courthouse after violent threats by Trump supporters demanding a “forensic audit;” and, lightning is found to have ignited Oregon's mammoth Bootleg fire.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN Security Council rejected a resolution put forward by Russia and China that would have immediately stripped the powers Bosnian peace representative; and, Norway mourned the seventy-seven slain a decade ago in a right wing extremist attack.

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/2021/7/23/2041446/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, audio recordings of New York Times reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker’s interview with Donald Trump ‘is like listening to Nixon drunk rambling.’

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal investigation found unvaccinated staff are linked to rising nursing home infections and deaths; US life expectancy in 2020 saw its biggest drop since World War Two; and, massive wildfire smoke from the American West is hurting air quality on the East Coast.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Colombian children are learning to identify landmines buried during the country's civil war; and, for the first time, Saudi women will stand guard in Mecca during the haj.

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/2021/7/22/2041247/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, medical quack Rand Paul, is now threatening Dr Fauci, the eminent medical scientist of our age, with a criminal referral after their heated clash during a Senate hearing.

On the rest of the menu, an off-duty DEA agent has been arrested on Capitol riot charges; an Alabama judge refuses to drop corruption charges against an Alabama sheriff; and, a US district judge sentenced Russian hacker, Peter “The Bot Master” Levashov, to time already served.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Spanish government approved a draft bill that would outlaw expressions of support for the dictatorship of Francisco Franco; and, a new study shows India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be as high as five million, ten times the official tally.

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/2021/7/21/2041017/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays