Episodes

  • 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.

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

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 27 Aug 25
    Aug 27 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 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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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • 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.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 25 August 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 25 August 25
    Aug 25 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, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out her MAGA colleagues for playing “Calvin Ball.”

    Then, on the rest of the menu, thousands of homes in the Northern California wine country and central Oregon are under evacuation orders and warnings; Trump halted work on a massive New England offshore wind project that’s almost ninety percent complete; and, all of the major railroad companies refuse to join a voluntary safety program to reduce derailments two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an American accused of offering sensitive information on the US military to China has been indicted in Germany; and, European postal services have suspended the shipment of packages to the US over Trump’s tariffs.

    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 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 22 Aug 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 22 Aug 25
    Aug 22 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 only thing MAGA hates more than fair and free elections, is Gavin Newsom.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, Alina Habba is ‘unlawfully appointed’ and has been 'disqualified' as a US attorney by a Republican judge; former Trump advisor John Bolton was the subject of an early morning Night of the Long Knives raid conducted by the FBI; and, Trump’s death penalty push faces setbacks as judges block attempts to reverse prior decisions.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Michigan couple held for thirty-two days in a maximum-security Mexican prison without trial over a dispute with a luxury timeshare firm, has filed a lawsuit against the company; and, lawyers asked a judge to order ICE to free a Spanish-language journalist from immigration detention.

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

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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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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 21 Aug 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 21 Aug 25
    Aug 21 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, the more Trump’s DOJ talks, the more they give a gift of evidence undermining their own prosecutions of Democrats.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal district court accepted a settlement mandating Montana provide education to students with disabilities up to age twenty-two; parents of kids swept away in the Texas floods begged lawmakers to protect future campers while lawmakers devoted all their attention to their illegal gerrymander, instead; and, stocks are falling again on Wall Street after a weaker-than-expected profit report from Walmart.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China races to build the world’s largest solar farm in its efforts to meet emissions targets; and, New Zealand will buy a fleet of US helicopters in a $1.6B military aircraft spending package.







    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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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 20 Aug 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 20 Aug 25
    Aug 20 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 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)Bon Appétit!






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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 19 Aug 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 19 Aug 25
    Aug 19 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, Trump debuted his illegal executive order to eliminate mail-in ballots.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, Yosemite National Park employees are furious over the firing of a research scientist for making Trump mad; a federal judge issued an injunction preventing Trump’s FTC from investigating watchdog Media Matters; and, twenty states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Justice to stop immigration requirements on victim funds.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a New Zealand soldier with ties to right wing hate groups admitted to attempted espionage in the country’s first spying conviction; and, the Burkina Faso junta declared the UN coordinator persona non grata over her devastating child rights report.

    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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    1 hr and 4 mins