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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 Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 26 Nov 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 26 Nov 25
    Nov 26 2025
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!

    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s personal lawyer and now an appellate judge, Emil Bove, could be hauled into court for criminal contempt and somebody could go to jail for lying to the judge back in March.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, it sure looks like Karoline Leavett’s brother set up his ex-wife and mother of his child to be apprehended by ICE for deportation; in the latest sign that a suspected effort to build an immigrant detention center in Newport, Oregon has not gone away, a federal defense contractor has been inquiring about reserving hundreds of hotel rooms on the Oregon coast for a year; and, a federal appeals court upheld a $1 million penalty against Trump and Alina Habba for filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s top court upheld Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction and prison sentence for illegal campaign financing of his 2012 reelection bid; and, Kremlin Steve Witkoff is teaching a master class to Russian officials on how to get Trump to sabotage Ukraine and NATO.


    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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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 25 November 2025

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 25 November 2025
    Nov 25 2025
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!

    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Bondi ran away after being confronted over the collapse of the criminal indictments against Comey and Leticia James.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump fumed after Pam Bondi was hit with a lawsuit from a senior DOJ official fired over an O’Keefe-led honeypot sting; Oregon’s governor declared a state of emergency to ensure the state gets enough fuel ahead of Thanksgiving holiday travel because of the Olympic Pipeline leak; and, imagine a world without nurses, Trump does.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a hard-right British politician was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for accepting bribes to make favorable statements about Russia in the European Parliament; and, after claiming over the weekend he would see him soon, Trump was shocked and hurt Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld former President Bolsonaro’s incarceration after he admitted to trying to break his ankle monitor while under house arrest.

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

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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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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 24 November 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 24 November 25
    Nov 24 2025
    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, Pam Bondi’s secret Epstein scheme is revealed.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump family fortune has plummeted by over a billion dollars in just a few months due to losses in the volatile cryptocurrency market tied to the King’s approval numbers; a Texas A&M committee ruled a professor’s firing over gender identity lessons was unjustified; and, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine now regrets signing the law that legalized sports betting in his state.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where authorities arrested seven bodyguards suspected of being involved in the assassination earlier this month of a popular mayor in west-central Mexico; and, Jimmy Cliff, the singer and actor whose mellifluous voice helped to turn reggae into a global phenomenon, has died at age 81.

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

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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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    1 hr and 3 mins
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