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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

By: Roy Justice Putnam
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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 Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 23 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 23 May 25
    May 23 2025
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!



    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court blocked the nation’s first religious charter school in a surprise rebuke, with Amy Coney Barrett recusing.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, American refugees are fleeing across state lines to escape hostile forces under Trump; Kentucky’s bitcoin boom has gone bust; and, a just-passed Louisiana law threatens residents with one million dollar fines for sharing warnings about bad air quality.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian hackers are targeting Western firms shipping aid to Ukraine; and, Trump’s early morning rage tweet tariff threats on the European Union and Apple, have sent US futures and global markets on a sharp death spiral.

    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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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 22 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 22 May 25
    May 22 2025
    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, a fed up Supreme Court schooled the Trump administration on the basics of Constitutional law.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is 'deeply underwater' on his Wall Street skyscraper as a massive debt deadline looms; a fire at the historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set; and, the two Israeli Embassy staffers murdered near the White House by a “Free Palestine” activist, had just left the Young Diplomats Reception for multinational aid to Gaza.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania’s Constitutional Court unanimously validated the results of Romania’s presidential election rerun, shortly after rejecting a request to annul the results by the hard-right Moscow-backed candidate; and, Thailand’s ex-Prime Minister Yingluck has been ordered to pay for losses from a money-losing rice subsidy program.







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

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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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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 21 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 21 May 25
    May 21 2025
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    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's budget bill has created a 'legislative suicide pact' for the MAGA House.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pacific Northwest braces for a tsunami and typhoon monitoring blackout from Trump’s agency shutdown; a bombshell email leak has exposed a Gabbard goon secretly ordering intel changes so it couldn’t be ‘used against’ Trump; and, the hacker who breached the Signal chats used by Waltz and Hegseth, intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police broke up a right-wing extremist group that aimed to destabilize the country’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants and political opponents; and, the mother of the arrested Salvadoran lawyer who represented Trump’

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

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    “It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” - Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families’ (1845)


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