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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 Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 28 Aug 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 28 Aug 25
    Aug 28 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, Jack Smith and his lawyers are coming out swinging as he shoves back against MAGA’s “imaginary and unfounded” phony “whistleblower” complaint against him.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, mystery surrounds a $1.2 billion Army contract to build a huge tent concentration camp in the Texas desert; the MAGA-led Air Force will provide full military funeral honors to traitor Ashli Babbitt; and, Army is the last service academy to finally sell alcoholic drinks at football games.

    (No Chef’s Table today, had to get Gunner to his Vet appointment earlier than planned. The links to the reportage do work.) After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where defense ministers from Japan and Britain hailed their “deep strategic alignment” as a Royal Navy aircraft carrier made a historic port call in Tokyo; and, Australia, Canada and the Philippines staged air defense drills off the disputed shoal guarded by China.







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

    Bon Appétit!


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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 27 Aug 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 27 Aug 25
    Aug 27 2025
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    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump got a rude awakening with major protests chasing his goons from swank DC neighborhoods.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin Lutheran pastor tested the new IRS endorsement rule by backing AOC and lost his church; ICE Barbie says the entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it; and, a federal judge ruled the Mississippi Supreme Court gerrymander map violates the Voting Rights Act.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a US appeals court puts the brakes on the contested land transfer for an Arizona copper mine to a pair of international companies; and, Paris residents fight the ‘Disneyfication’ of their beloved Montmartre neighborhood.

    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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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 26 Aug 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 26 Aug 25
    Aug 26 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, Stephen Miller melted down on live television over Trump's latest scandal as Newsom mocked him mercilessly.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump threatened retaliation for countries that tax or regulate US tech companies; the leading license plate camera company has halted cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security over concern how its investigations are used; and, in its efforts to ethnically cleanse America, the Trump MAGA administration charged George Mason University’s efforts to diversify its workforce violates a civil rights law intended to end segregation.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Indonesia launched a measles vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak that has killed seventeen; and, Australia accused Iran of organizing antisemitic attacks across the country and has expelled its ambassador.

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

    Bon Appétit!

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