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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, ahead of the North Korea summit, Trump boasts that it’s about “attitude” more than “preparation.”



Then, on the rest of the menu, the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park is forced from his post after disagreeing with the Trump administration over management of the park’s famed bison herd; Devin Nunes is refusing to release transcripts that appear to confirm that key witnesses lied during congressional testimony; and, an ex-Congressman with ties to Russia, may be the ‘missing piece’ in the Mueller investigation.



After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where some G7 leaders plot to fight back against Trump on trade at the upcoming summit in Canada; and, iconoclastic chef and author, Anthony Bourdain, is found dead in a French hotel room of an apparent suicide, at age 61.




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



Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/6/8/1770241/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Betsy DeVos studies "school safety" and leaves out guns on purpose.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice will share additional documents on the FBI informant with the Gang of Eight next week; the Health secretary lied to Congress by insisting all asylum-seekers aren’t being separated from their kids; and, Louisiana lawmakers are pushing bills that benefit their own businesses, and it’s perfectly legal.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where even though white supremacist candidates’ hopes were trampled in Tuesday’s primary races, they vow to continue their campaigns of hate; and, Trump’s antipathy towards the NFL is not about his fight over patriotism, but a decades long grudge over being rejected from joining the ‘Big Boy’s Club.”

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/6/7/1769939/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the values that led Trump to pardon arch-conservative felon Dinesh D’Souza, are not pretty when seen in the light of day.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration gives up on filling the next in line position under Rosenstein, because no one will take the job; the top energy regulator points to problematic wartime language in Trump’s coal bailout plan; and, we are shocked, shocked that Facebook allowed a Chinese firm that is deemed a ‘national security threat,’ to access its user personal data.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ted Cruz picks a fight with a conservative reporter and loses; and, as Saudi women get the right to drive, the activists who fought for that right remain jailed.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/6/6/1769705/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, US Senator Jeff Merkley was denied access to a refugee children’s detention center in Texas, because the federal government does "not want members of Congress or the public to know what's going on" in the facility, which holds 1000 kids separated from their parents.

On the rest of the menu, West Virginia coal miners slam their Republican governor with a class action lawsuit over bounced paychecks; Trump’s ambassador to Germany disgraces the US for the second time in a month; and, Mitch McConnell worries Trump will tank the economy, just in time for the midterms.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Big Oil and Pope Francis are set to meet this week in Rome to discuss climate change; and, bananas have died out once before, it would be wise to not let it happen again.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/6/5/1769430/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Fox News' Jeanine Pirro freaks out over Trey Gowdy moving to ‘the dark side’ by agreeing with the FBI.

On the rest of the menu, a Florida GOP congressman hopes voters will like his ‘Women’s Summit’ on gardening, weight loss and carpet stain removal tips; Trump may have violated federal law by urging NFL owners not to sign Kaepernick; and, Ryan Zinke defends sending park rangers to the Mexico border by citing the ‘obvious environmental disaster’ caused from immigration.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a new report details Scott Pruitt’s cozy relationship with billionaire coal baron, Joe Craft; and, Philippines President Duterte tells the special U.N rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers to ‘go to hell,’ after criticism over the removal of a supreme court justice who voted against Duterte’s controversial government proposals.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/6/4/1769173/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Dinesh D’Souza’s pardon would be a DM to Michael Cohen if it hadn’t been put on the public timeline, instead.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida jury and court ruled that black lives don’t matter when it awarded four dollars to the family of a black man gunned down by cops in his own garage, then the judge reduced that to four cents; civil rights groups asked the DHS to reveal how they define black identity extremists; and, Trump attacked the FBI for not doing the one thing that they actually did.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a disgraced former Trump appointee, who was forced to resign in one of the most substantial Native American financial scandals of the past decade, figures he now has the proper GOP credentials to run for Congress; and, evidence mounts that vitamins might not do anything for your health.

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

Bon Appetit!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“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"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/1/1768587/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had buyer’s remorse after Sessions refused to ‘un-recuse’ himself.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the NRA warned Dick Sporting Goods the retailer was doomed, but sales soared after the company ceased selling military-style assault rifles; Trump’s auto trade war alone would kill 157,000 American jobs; and, FEMA spent $75 million to dock a half-empty cruise ship off Puerto Rico for 4 months, more than it spent on direct home rebuilding grants to citizens of the island in the same time frame.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thanks to the negligence of the Trump White House, 71 federal agencies are deemed at “risk or high risk” of cyberattacks due to inadequate cybersecurity programs; and, Dick Tuck, the one-time Democratic Party operative who made a career of political pranks, subterfuge and specializing in tormenting Richard Nixon, has died at the age of 94.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/5/31/1768335/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, oops, did the Government place the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria at sixty-four? A Harvard study reveals they really meant something like nearly six thousand dead, instead.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Customs and Border Protection has finally returned the $41,000 it seized from a Texas nurse on her way to open a women and children’s medical clinic in Nigeria; the Constitution protects against illegal searches and seizures, but Justice Clarence Thomas isn’t sure if that’s a good thing; and, another White House official joins Trump’s propaganda outfit at Sinclair Broadcasting.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where another prominent Russian critic of Putin is conveniently shot dead in Kiev, except it was staged to expose a Russian assassin; and, Trump’s defense budget is a threat to national security.


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

Bon Appetit!

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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"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/30/1768079/-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, the chaos of the Trump White House seems never ending.

On the rest of the menu, the New York Time’s sympathetic coverage of white moms struggling with opioids, contrasts so sharply with its hysteria over “crack babies,” it’s almost like night and day; scientific research reveals Trump dehumanizes minorities to gain the approval of angry whites; and, Mamoudou Gassama, the hero immigrant from Mali who scaled four storeys up the side of a building to rescue a dangling baby, will be granted French citizenship.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the delicate balance in Trump’s brain between glorification and mortification, can tip either way at any moment; and, if Rudy Giuliani is getting booed at Yankee Stadium, where is Trump going to live if he’s given house arrest instead of an isolation pod at a Supermax lockdown?

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/5/29/1767786/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joan Walsh hammered Ben Ferguson with some truth, and it was delicious.

On the rest of the menu, Ireland's landslide vote to repeal their 8th Amendment in an historic abortion referendum, marks a huge cultural shift; as an Oklahoma state senator, Scott Pruitt introduced a bill to grant men “property rights” over unborn fetuses; and, the US Border Patrol changes its story about why its officer killed an unarmed woman.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where top White House aide, Stephen Miller, announced that the Trump administration is going all-in on racism to try to retain a Republican majority in Congress in 2018; and, with a brand spanking new US arms sale pending, what happened to Saudi assurances on reducing civilian casualties in Yemen?

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/5/28/1767580/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays