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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

By: Roy Justice Putnam
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 West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially Special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays & Blue Moon Spirits Fridays!

Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam serves up a cornucopia of abundance in The Bistro Cafe with "All The News That's Fit To Read" and "In This Reporter's Opinion," a lively, humorous and astute analyses on the issues of the day, along with spirited discussions at the "Chef's Table" with politicians, pundits, celebrities, musicians, authors, filmmakers, academics and leaders of the New Media.

Bon Appétit!

First a road manager and occasional back-up singer for the rock group, Cottonmouth in the mid-70's, Justice Putnam then re-emerged with the Laguna Beach Free Poets briefly, part of the Los Angeles Art/ Performance/ Poetry/ Dance/ Punk movement during the early 80's. He then performed solo shows, as a member of Meta-4 and later with Chris Watkins of Hoi Poloi and also Preacher Boy & The Natural Blues, as well as with Jimmy McAllister of Rabbit Choir at such venues as Gorky's in Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque in Santa Monica, Cafe du Nord and Biscuits and Blues in San Francisco, Freight and Salvage and The Bison Brewing Company in Berkeley, The Sweetwater in Mill Valley, and also at music festivals in France, Belgium, Germany, California and Oregon. His poetry and prose has been published in Elektrum Magazine, Vol. No. Magazine, American Poetry Anthology, Literatus World Review, Berkeley Daily Planet and other academic, small press, print and online journals.

A scholar-athlete in his youth, Justice Putnam worked as an orderly, an emergency room technician, a Roustabout and a Production Operator at an oil refinery. He taught History and English in private schools briefly, while coaching football and track. He was a fruit and vegetable inspector for the California State Department of Agriculture and a stone mason building free standing moss stone walls in Marin and Sonoma Counties. He has been a theater light designer, an actor, a surfer, deep-sea fisherman and a Grinder on a racing yacht. He was the co-host with the chanson francaise impresario, Simon Dray, on his "Fm/French Connection Bistro Radio" broadcast from KUSF 90.3 in San Francisco for over a decade.

Justice has also traveled around the world, living for short times in France, Italy, Japan and Mexico.

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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 12 Jan 26

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 12 Jan 26
    Jan 12 2026
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!

    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump has ordered his DOJ to go totally dark into the release of information about his dark past as the entire DOJ is now complicit in the violation of federal law.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, an officer with the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau has been reassigned after he was captured on film agreeing that he would shoot Renee Good in the face, no questions asked; a suspect has been arrested on suspicion of arson after fire damages the historic Mississippi synagogue that was bombed by the KKK for its civil rights work; and, Trump ordered references to his two impeachments removed from the display of his Smithsonian photo portrait.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany sharply rejected quack RFK Jr.'s lies that it prosecutes doctors for vaccine exemptions; and, Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok over sexualized AI images.

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

    Bon Appétit!

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 09 Jan 26

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 09 Jan 26
    Jan 9 2026
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    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump lost it overnight as the GOP revolted against him in Congress.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, five states sued the Trump administration for withholding billions in social safety net funds; Austin Peay State University reinstated the professor fired for accurately quoting a Charlie Kirk post and settled for $500k; and, it only took five years, but at least the Senate unanimously voted to display the January 6 plaque MAGA Mike says violates the law.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil’s President vetoed a bill to reduce the 27-year prison sentence of Bolsonaro for the far-right leader’s failed 2023 coup attempt; and, a winter storm slammed the UK and France, disrupting travel and leaving tens of thousands without power.

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

    Bon Appétit!

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 08 Jan 26

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 08 Jan 26
    Jan 8 2026
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!

    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is losing it as mass protests are forming after his ICE Gestapo murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon’s attorney general sued three insulin manufacturers and the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers alleging they colluded together to inflate the price of insulin; while ICE goons prevented EMT’s from attending to Renee Good, Bovino’s brownshirts invaded a nearby high school, tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders, city schools are now closed indefinitely; and, Mike Pence sounded off against the White House's new "offensive, revisionist history" display mocking Capitol police officers who responded to the insurrection on January 6, 2021.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where clashes between a Saudi/US-backed gold mining company leaves four dead in Afghanistan; and, Trump is withdrawing the United States from sixty-six international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and the rule of law.








    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 their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851










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    1 hr and 4 mins
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