West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee detailed how the Trump campaign sought help from and conspired with Vlad to steal the 2016 election, and that the Trump administration obstructed the investigation.

Then, on the rest of the menu, despite his nomination being nixed, a former oil industry attorney will continue calling the shots at the Bureau of Land Management in an unusual arrangement he set up months ago; a Trump rule that allows Liquified Natural Gas rail shipments is challenged in court; and, the Florida felon voting law was questioned by a US appellate court.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed his close ally and deputy Chrystia Freeland as finance minister; and, floods on the upper Yangtze river forced Chinese authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people and threatened a 1,200-year-old world heritage site.

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/2020/8/19/1970521/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, her father died from COVID-19 and his only pre-existing condition was voting for Donald Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, with schools set to reopen, a ‘horrifying’ data glitch skews key Iowa coronavirus metrics and downplays the pandemic’s severity; a longtime Democratic legislator and a key power broker in the Virginia state Senate was charged with felonious “injury to a confederate monument;” and, the Trump administration approved an oil and gas leasing plan for the Alaska Wildlife Refuge.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Lebanese customs chief was arrested over the Beirut blast; and, the worldwide novel coronavirus spread is being driven by people in their twenties to forties, many unaware they are infected and posing a danger to vulnerable groups.

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/2020/8/18/1970203/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mark Meadows was about to cry defending Trump’s false claims on mail-in voter fraud.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after deadly spikes across his state, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will finally allow local mask mandates, but with conditions; Trump’s younger brother Robert died on a day when Donald only had to use three mulligans for the whole 18 holes on his course; and, the Clinesmith criminal information document the government filed with the District Court of Columbia suggests John Durham misunderstands his investigation.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarus President Lukashenko said Putin has agreed to send the Little Green Men to suppress the massive protests over his fraudulent election; and, Mercedes Barcha, the widow of Gabriel García Márquez, has died at age 87.

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/2020/8/17/1969882/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

Blue Moon Spirits Fridays

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, with over a thousand dying a day and tests cut back to game the Covid numbers for his reelection, Trump accused Biden of playing politics with a pandemic.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to vandalizing a synagogue last year as part of a neo-Nazi plot; a federal appeals court ruled a male-only draft is constitutional, but the weird part is the lawyer who argued the case was killed by men right’s rival and wannabe judge killer Roy Den Hollander; and, Dodger Stadium will serve as a vote center for the presidential election in November.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French government decreed that Paris is a 'red' high-risk COVID zone again; and, Australia awaits the findings of an inquiry of cruise ship passengers infected with COVID who disembarked in Sydney last March, triggering more than six hundred cases and killing twenty.

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/2020/8/14/1969096/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jared “dispatched to meet with Kanye” shows there is “no political dirty trick beyond the pale” in the Trump campaign.

Then, on the rest of the menu, McConnell's refusal to give virus aid to the states could cost four million jobs; six former EPA chiefs called for the agency to reset after the election; and, Iowa farmers assess their losses after a massive derecho flattened cornfields and burst grain bins still filled with tens of millions of bushels of last year’s harvest.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Pompeo says he warned Lavrov against offering bounties for US soldiers, but no one told Trump about the meeting because he would have gotten mad; and, satellite imagery showed North Korea’s main nuclear reactor site is threatened by recent flooding.

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/2020/8/13/1968853/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the US met Kamala Harris when she secured a better relief deal from the largest mortgage servicers in the US following the foreclosure crisis, in which all fifty states benefited.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a US magistrate judge ruled Grants Pass, Oregon cannot fine people for living outside; a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's relaxation of migratory bird safeguards; and, with the constraints gone thanks to a federal court ruling, the GOP is mounting a broad effort to intimidate voters at the polls.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where despite data and photographic evidence from his own government, Brazilian President Bolsonaro angrily called the thousands of fires raging across the Amazon rainforest a “lie”; and, Britain will tighten online campaigning rules to protect its elections.

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/2020/8/12/1968573/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, we have your Basket of Deplorable QAnon-affiliated congressional candidates, right here.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the DC police union begged a federal court to block the mandatory release of body cam footage and the names of officers involved in shootings; Russian toady Ron Johnson subpoenas the FBI for discovering that Trump colluded with Russia; and, New York’s true nursing home death toll is cloaked in secrecy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Thai Prime Minister is 'concerned' after another pro-democracy student protest issued new demands on the monarchy; and, Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya is safe in Lithuania, after escaping certain reprisals for running against Alexander Lukashenko.

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/2020/8/11/1968274/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s executive memorandums are “absurdly unconstitutional.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, voters keep choosing to expand Obamacare under Trump; states are on the hook for billions under Trump’s unemployment plan; and, Eastman Kodak's $765 million US loan agreement is on hold after allegations of stock manipulation developed in the dark room.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was arrested for “collusion with foreign forces” under China’s draconian national security law; and, Spaniards call for an end to the monarchy after the sudden departure of former king Juan Carlos amid a corruption scandal.

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/2020/8/10/1967987/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials; Blue Moon Spirits Fridays

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Kodak deal is a “pump and dump stock scheme created by the US government.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Maryland county health official defied GOP Governor Larry Hogan's order to keep schools closed; the head of the Federal Election Commission called on McConnell to fund this election now to avoid 'devastating failure;’ and, lawmakers from both parties are calling on the US Postal Service to immediately reverse operational changes that are causing delays.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Mekong River Commission urged China and Southeast Asian countries to share more data on dam operations, as water flow hit record low levels; and, an ex-Saudi intelligence official alleged Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent a hit squad to kill him, but Canadian authorities thwarted the effort.

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

Bon Appétit!

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Bill Barr “is an Attorney General willing to play politics.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, in a rare disclosure, the State Department revealed Russia is using a well-developed militarized online disinformation operation around the pandemic; a lengthy FBI affidavit detailed how multiple GOP groups were involved in Ohio’s $60 million dollar fraud scheme; and, in a sharply worded ruling, a federal judge in Mississippi pleaded with the Supreme Court to overturn qualified immunity.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German neo-Nazi on trial over the murder of a pro-refugee politician admitted to the killing; and, the lack of regulations that caused the blast in Beirut, echoes the tragedy in West, Texas seven years ago.

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/2020/8/6/1966950/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays