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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the New York Governor says we need a federal response as he announced widespread closings with two fellow-governors.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Moscow Mitch McConnell continues working on packing the courts as the nation focuses on coronavirus; government regulators bust another crooked bank; and, Pacific Gas & Electric won court approval to raise $23 billion to help pay its bills over the destructive California wildfires.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Bill Barr moved to drop charges against Mueller-indicted Russians, but says the reason for the cover up of the Russian attack is a secret; and, a German artisanal ice cream parlor is asking customers to buy coupons for ice cream futures, instead of hoarding toilet paper.

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/2020/3/17/1928162/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the dangerous lies and propaganda being spread by Fox News has been getting people killed for years.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump says he was tested for coronavirus after his doctor said he wasn't; Trump tried to bribe German scientists working on a cure for coronavirus so the vaccine would be exclusive to the US; and, national security surveillance nabs more than spies now, sometimes it catches legal immigrants using food stamps legally.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz will be asked to form a new government, boosting his chances of ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and, sex clubs in Amsterdam’s “Red Light” district were told to close down, and long lines formed at pot shops, as the Netherlands imposed tight restrictions over coronavirus.

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/2020/3/16/1927767/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, court precedent and federal law provide “sweeping powers” for the federal government to issue quarantines and other limits on citizens’ rights during a legitimate public health crisis, but we shouldn’t need the law to do what is right.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the White House is trying to kill legislation to fund coronavirus testing by adding anti-abortion language to it; government officials testified on Capitol Hill on why the CDC coronavirus discussions were held in secret; and, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen dies from injuries suffered in a fall, at age 81.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a retired general seeking to unseat Uganda's long-ruling president is detained on treason charges; and, the US Soccer president resigned amid misogynist statements made by the organization’s legal team while attacking gender pay equality in court.

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/2020/3/13/1927029/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Representative Katie Porter grilled Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Wells on whether he’d seen “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” and to refund the money Wells Fargo overcharged consumers on auto loans.

Then, on the rest of the menu, global stocks plummeted after Trump banned travel from Europe in an inefficient effort to contain COVID-19; a cancer research scientist is able to link two US state COVID-19 outbreaks with genetic fingerprints; and, in an unusual move, Trump has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil’s Congress overturned a presidential veto in an ongoing battle over appropriations; and, the UN court for the former Yugoslavia has delayed the appeals hearing of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic on health grounds.

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 and Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/12/1926699/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, COVID-19 has created a political reckoning for Trump who insists the world was ‘blindsided’ by the pandemic.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal appeals court ruled the DOJ must hand over grand jury materials from Mueller’s investigation to Congress; the US military said Trump's Taliban peace deal is mostly useless; and, lawyers for US Soccer argued in a court filing that they can’t give the women’s team equal pay, because women athletes are less skilled and work less demanding jobs than male athletes.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK Special Crimes Agency is probing the purchase of a London mansion by the ex-Kazakh president's grandson; and, Dutch prosecutors charge that Russia tried to thwart their investigation of the shooting down of the MH17 commercial airliner.

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/2020/3/11/1926381/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump faces a huge leadership crisis over COVID-19 and the economy.

Then, on the rest of the menu, US regulators warned Jim Bakker and six other grifters to stop making fraudulent coronavirus claims; a racist GOP voter suppression effort was just defeated in Georgia; and, Trump's trade war is crushing Midwest farmers, and spiking the suicide rate.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Mexico peso is at a 3-year low, so the country’s central bank increased auctions of coverage contracts to up to $30 billion; and, after surpassing Brezhnev and looking to pass Stalin for years in power, Putin is backing the Duma’s effort to change the constitution and make Vlad de jure leader for life.

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/2020/3/10/1926039/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Woodrow Wilson’s lies about the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic helped spread the disease that killed millions worldwide.

Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE instituted a media blackout when asked what procedures are in place to protect immigrant detainees from COVID-19; the Virginia legislature passed a bill allowing the removal of monuments honoring the treasonous Confederacy; and, Russia is using social media to create election chaos, again.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where no one can figure out why the Taliban declined to offer assurances of support for women’s rights on International Women’s Day in Afghanistan; and, Turkish police used tear gas to disperse the several dozen women left trying to celebrate International Women's Day in Istanbul.

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/2020/3/9/1925730/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former campaign manager for Barack Obama, David Plouffe, angered Fox & Friends for calling the network, Trump's "own political Westworld."

Then, on the rest of the menu, Bill Barr was slammed by a federal judge for misleading America about what is really in the Mueller Report; a DOJ attorney couldn’t explain to the Supreme Court how abortion restrictions help anyone; and, a federal court blocked Trump from banning asylum-seekers coming to the US.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a London policeman was arrested for links to right-wing terrorism; and, Florence Nightingale was a tough pioneer whose principles on hygiene underpin nursing today as the world battles covid-19.

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/2020/3/6/1924886/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump blamed Obama for slowing down new diagnostic testing for coronavirus, but GOP Senator Lamar Alexander and a lab association said Trump is lying.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the GOP hails Trump's 'win' in Minnesota, even though he was the only one on the ballot; the Trump campaign is taking in lots of cash from companies profiting off the opioid epidemic; and, the House passed a bipartisan $8.3 Billion dollar bill to battle coronavirus so it can whither in the fever swamp of Moscow Mitch McConnell’s graveyard.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where 'Putin's cook' seeks to distance himself from US charges of election meddling; and, Armenia charged a former defense minister with embezzlement.

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/2020/3/5/1924478/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Donna Brazile told RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel to “stay the hell out of our race.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is such a spoiled rich boy dimwit, he doesn't know the difference between a vocational school and a junior college; the Trump campaign sued several news outlets he doesn't like for stating facts that could damage his reelection; and, Trump administration appointees now must prove their devotion to Trump, or else.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan is still preparing for the Olympics to open on 24 July as planned; and, the mass women's strike in Mexico planned for 9 March is like a 'Cinderella' dream come true.

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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 Noted & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/4/1924147/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays