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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, for the second time in a year, the Republican Senate majority has threatened a senator from the opposing party for stating truths on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

On the rest of the menu, the DHS was not consulted, nor were its analysts used, to compile a Trump administration report on terrorism that claims to have come from the DHS; a government shutdown does not mean the Trump administration isn't knocking things over in Europe and the Middle East; and, with the exit of Joshua Black, the US Government faces an even more critical ‘brain drain’ of Sanctions Experts from the State Department.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table for a consideration of how the cheap monthly publications that flooded rural homes in the early 1900’s, until after World War II, offered more than just advertising, they also provided companionship and a virtual community.


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

Bon Appetit!

Blue Moon Spirits Fridays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senators Mark Warner and Elizabeth Warren aim to protect data stemming from the Equifax breach; then, on the rest of the menu, we look at a comprehensive analysis of the report on Russian interference Senate Democrats released last week.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Paul Manafort’s former aid says he has no moral compass; Jake Tapper fact checks whether Dick Dubin really did lie about past White House meetings; and, Dick Durbin presses DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen about the Immigration meeting she conveniently couldn’t remember very well.

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

Bon Appetit!

Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays & Blue Moon Spirits Fridays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Velshi and Ruhle report on the mass resignations at the National Park Board over Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke; then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice wants to arrest elected officials for implementing sanctuary policies; the Energy Department threatens a whistleblower after he exposes a shady meeting with Secretary Rick Perry and Coal Baron, Robert E. Murray; and, Fox News attacked reporter April Ryan because she questioned Donald Trump's racist comments, now she is getting death threats.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to analyze a report that reveals white supremacist terrorists killed more people in the US last year than any other extremist group.

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

Bon Appetit!

Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lyndsay Graham held court with the media on DACA, Trump and incompetent White House staffers like Kelly; then, on the rest of the menu, Trump threatens lawsuits to stop businesses and individuals from ditching his toxic brand; FBI staffers fear that the GOP's witch hunt against the agency will compromise sources and get assets killed; and, ICE is planning massive Northern California immigration sweeps to strike against the state’s sanctuary laws.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to question why did the French publisher, Gallimard, seek to republish some of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's notoriously anti-Semitic writings? To make a quick buck, of course.

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/2018/1/17/1733457/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, UK Labour Party leader, Emily Thornberry, says Trump is a “dangerous man” and an “asteroid of awfulness;” then, on the rest of the menu, Walmart finally apologizes to a black Montana State University professor, after ignoring a racist incident by an employee for over a year; Tucker Carlson insists immigrants have made California “the poorest state in the nation,” but with a surplus of over $10 Billion, the state ranks as the 6th largest economy in the world; and, Sweden is creating a new government agency to protect its upcoming election from Russian and other propaganda.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table for an analysis of why Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy are more relevant now than they have been for decades.

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

Bon Appetit!

River City Hash Mondays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it was a false alarm because someone butt-dialed 38 minutes of terror in Hawai’i; then, on the rest of the menu, the Education Department chooses a firm with ties to Secretary DeVos, in a student debt-collection deal with bad optics at the least; a 24-year-old recent college graduate, whose only qualification was working on the Trump campaign, is running drug policy because experts won’t work for Trump; and, in some good news, Mark Zuckerberg lost $3.3 Billion in personal wealth, after Facebook changed its news feed last week.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table as Gavin Newsom settles in as center of his rivals' attention, in the first major debate of the California governor's race.

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

Bon Appetit!

Blue Moon Spirits Fridays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The Fix’s Eugene Scott explains how Trump’s “shithole countries” comment is the latest example of his history of demeaning statements on nonwhite immigrants; then, on the rest of the menu, a federal appeals court orders North Carolina to redraw its illegally gerrymandered U.S. House districts in two weeks, or the court will; two New York City Council members were violently arrested while protesting an immigration activist’s deportation; and, in further proof he learned American Civics from the FSB, Trump accused two government employees of treason, for criticizing him.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table for a discussion of how Martian ice deposits could sustain human outposts in the future; and, the highest ideals of Locke, Hume and Kant were first proposed more than a century earlier, by an Ethiopian in a cave.

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

Bon Appetit!

Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/12/1732076/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

Blue Moon Spirits Fridays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Feinstein riles the GOP after releasing the Fusion GPS transcripts; then, on the rest of the menu, Ben Wittes says it is inconceivable Mueller wouldn’t speak with Donald Trump; Edie Brickell wonders “What Would You Do?”; we remember the day that shaped Dianne Feinstein; Buckshot LeFonque knows “Why The Caged Bird Sings;" and, the Prime Minister of Norway warns Trump not to miss a good opportunity.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to scrutinize what the testimony on the Trump dossier adds to the Russia probe; CNN’s Erin Burnett has a heated interview with GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz on the Fusion GPS transcript; and, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse tells Rachel Maddow the Dossier has held up quite well despite GOP attacks on its veracity.

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

Bon Appetit!

Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 10 Jan 18

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joy Ann Reid, Republican strategist Rick Wilson and Root editor Jason Johnson, discuss the “Gang of Eight tattoo for RINO cucks” Trump is reported to be getting; then, on the rest of the menu, Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 Million for the “All The Money in the World” reshoot, while lead actress Michele Williams was paid a $80 per diem totaling less than $1,000; Virginia’s new Democratic governor makes history by appointing a Woman-Majority cabinet; and, what with House Republicans retiring in spades ahead of the midterms, if Democrats play their cards right, they have a real chance of taking back the House.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table for a discussion on civil rights groups under attack in Europe, have urged the EU to set up a fund to protect them from governments prone to dismantle the rule of law and human rights; and, Alaska is warming so quickly, weather algorithms cannot keep up.

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

Bon Appetit!

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Show Notes & Links at: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/10/1731348/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays
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I have some explaining to do — 5 o’clock
meant I would speculate
about artichokes (Greek) and the unfarmed mackerel.
Anyway, the men would present us with a bed of carrot
and potatoes + 1 cup of broth.
Our husbandry in sharp mustard
suit, laden with trial pieces for the fondue. I would prefer
not to. I had such friends —
a long time faring all through the West
with my filth and a bouquet of cutlery
where I had put it: by me.
And yet expansive, the things made by the things
I made. And a supervisor hovering behind me. The heaviness
of being.
I am the Name, Jehovah called from the bush. I had visions
of pigeons. And I replied:
Here I am to be called Ishmael and beget.

— Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
“Morning is Morning”

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Katy Tur and Matt Miller discuss the perils of the Trump interview with the Mueller team; then, on the rest of the menu, Ryan Zinke and Scott Pruitt are engaging in a “likely illegal” political process in how federal funding grants are signed off; Russian Assets, GOP representatives Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, embark on a hunt for anti-Trump leakers in the Department of Justice and the FBI; and, in a major blow to the Trump administration’s effort to slow the growth of wind and solar power, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unanimously rejected Rick Perry’s plan to raise consumer energy bills to subsidize coal and nuclear power plants.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where we’ll examine that time Stephen Miller greeted right-wing extremists in the lobby of the U.S. Senate; and, Trump’s spiritual adviser warns her followers they will face severe ‘consequences’ if they don’t send her up to a month’s salary by the end of January.

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

Bon Appetit!

Show notes and Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/9/1731018/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays