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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, while holding back pandemic relief so Governors will do him “a favor, though,” Trump is pulling a “Ukraine all over again.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI warned the public of the potential for “Zoom Bombing” after two schools reported their video conferencing classes were hijacked; federal judges stopped Texas, Ohio and Alabama from curbing abortions during the coronavirus pandemic; and, the FBI is looking into Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr dumping $1.7 million in stocks in the days before the pandemic wreaked havoc on the economy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain will spend the equivalent of $93 million dollars US to get their stranded citizens home on charter flights; and, thieves stole a Van Gogh from a Dutch museum closed by the pandemic.

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/2020/3/31/1932892/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, US religious leaders blasted white evangelicals for their "utter moral bankruptcy" and "having rented out Jesus to this moronic monster" Trump during this time of crisis.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the coronavirus pandemic makes it harder for campaigns to ask for money, but only if you’re not the GOP: local governments and park managers worry about following Trump’s orders to keep the national parks open during the pandemic; and, Nevada distilleries are turning spirits into sanitzer.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France used two high-speed trains and a German military plane to move critically ill coronavirus patients in an effort to ease the pressure on overwhelmed hospitals in eastern France; and, with infections rising, Moscow has tightened its coronavirus rules.

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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's economic toady, Peter Navarro, tried to get away with his lies about COVID-19, but CNN’s Brianna Keiler wasn’t having any of it.

Then, on the rest of the menu, using the pandemic as cover, the EPA has abruptly stopped enforcing environmental laws; corporate health insurance has proved to be a travesty in the face of coronavirus; and, after proclaiming, “I’ll be the oversight,” congress locked Trump out of the $2.2 trillion dollar rescue plan for American businesses.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia just introduced an enforced two week quarantine for returning citizens; and, a false belief in Iran that a poison can cure coronavirus has killed hundreds.

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/2020/3/27/1931687/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, New York is now the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the United States.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after facing withering public criticism, Gilead Sciences will not seek a special regulatory designation that allowed it to block competition and boost profits for its covid-19 treatment; Catholic churches have cancelled Easter Mass despite Trump's push for them to be 'packed;' and, a bomb suspect targeting a coronavirus medical treatment facility was killed when the FBI served a search warrant at his compound near Kansas City.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where doctors combating India’s coronavirus outbreak have been evicted from their homes by force over fears they are carriers; and, Brazil's Bolsonaro is facing a governor ‘insurrection’ after his irresponsible call for life to return to pre-coronavirus normalcy.

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/2020/3/26/1931349/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, governors and doctors are in charge of combating the coronavirus pandemic, and are not listening to Donald Trump's suicide stats of people not going back to work.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a full sixty percent of North Carolina voters say Burr should resign over his coronavirus stock-dumping scandal; Republicans falsely claim that voting by mail is fraud; and, the NCAA ruled leading Heisman candidate, Trevor Lawrence of Clemson, and his girlfriend, soccer star Marissa Mowry, didn’t do anything wrong in trying to help coronavirus victims and their families.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia strongly objected to the formal indictment of Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengju; and, tsunami warnings were issued after a magnitude 7.8 quake struck off Russia's Kuril islands.

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/2020/3/25/1930984/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the staff at Bloomberg Business tried to corner and blame Elizabeth Warren over the stalling of Trump’s bailout, but she had a plan for that.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Pacific Gas & Electric will plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter after its fraying electrical grid ignited the 2018 Northern California wildfires; Texas is using the coronavirus outbreak as cover to ban most abortions in the state; and, after a conference call with the White House on battling COVID-19, the nation’s governors did not get the assurances they were hoping to hear.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungarians are hoarding guns in fear of massive disorder if severe shortages set in as the pandemic spreads; and, Angela Merkel's initial coronavirus test came back negative, but she will undergo further testing and care.

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/2020/3/24/1930588/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, George Takei said Trump's usage of 'the Chinese virus' is a 'signal to the haters.'

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump officials weigh reopening Obamacare enrollment over coronavirus; Rand Paul infected an unknown number of Republicans, and that’s even before he was diagnosed with covid-19; and, there is nothing funny about covid-19, but the stupid political and public responses are jokes that write themselves.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where authorities insist Slovenia’s sole nuke plant was undamaged by the large earthquake that toppled buildings, buried cars in rubble and injured scores Sunday morning; and, Gertrud Steinl, the last surviving German honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust, has died on the eve of her ninety-eighth birthday.

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/2020/3/23/1930155/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, testing and isolation completely halted the spread of the deadly virus in the Italian town of Vo.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the GOP refusal to expand Medicaid puts rural areas at risk during the pandemic; Major League Baseball will pay minor leaguers through 8 April; and, Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr and other GOP politicians dumped their stock on insider trade info just before the market tanked in February from covid-19.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese report into the death of the young doctor who raised the initial coronavirus alarm, underwhelms; and, Israelis accuse Bibi of exploiting the covid-19 virus to keep power.

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/2020/3/20/1929319/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, any coronavirus bailout ‘needs to put workers first.’

Then, on the rest of the menu, a surge in US white nationalism has led to a growing threat of violence by factions who advocate for a race war; the USDA is appealing a judge’s ruling that freezes the agency’s food stamp changes that could force hundreds of thousands from the program during a global health crisis; and, Mike Pompeo threatened the International Criminal Court, court staff and their families with “retaliatory actions” for investigating war crimes against the United States.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico has asked Interpol to issue a Red Notice detention order for an ex-official in the 2014 missing student-teacher probe; and, New Zealand passed an historic law that decriminalizes abortion.

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/2020/3/19/1928928/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, with so many small businesses shuttered by coronavirus, bar and restaurant workers push DC for a bailout, too.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Joe Biden finally gets Secret Service protection after repeatedly being accosted by protesters; the FBI is probing if a foreign government is behind the denial of service attack on the Health and Human Services agency; and, the Russian firm indicted by Mueller is set to file a $50 billion dollar suit against the US after Bill Barr dropped the charges to cover up their involvement in the 2016 election attack.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China is set to expel American reporters after the US curbed its media; and, a medical device manufacturer is set to sue a group of volunteers in Italy who 3D printed replicas of an eleven thousand dollar valve used for life-saving coronavirus treatments, that they printed for one dollar.

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/2020/3/18/1928513/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays