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.

    Archives of West Coast Cook Book & Speakeasy can be found in the Netroots Radio Archives on the Internet Archive:

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  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 10 Jan 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 10 Jan 25
    Jan 11 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, Trump’s political stunts over the Southern California urban wildfire exposes to the world once again what a self-centered, disgusting liar he is.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA Josephine County commissioners terminated the lease with the Grants Pass, Oregon Library that has been in place since 1959; the American Civil Liberties Union sued Ron DeSantis of failing to fulfill his constitutional obligation to call special elections for two seats in the Florida state House and Senate; and, Border Patrol arrested a Russian mercenary when he illegally crossed the Rio Grande carrying two passports and four thousand dollars.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korean impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol threatened civil war if he is detained; and, a prominent Vietnamese lawyer goes on trial for criticizing a top judge on Facebook.

    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 Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 09 Jan 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 09 Jan 25
    Jan 9 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, evacuees of the SoCal wildfire say Trump’s attacks on the region should be criminal.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, tribes and environmentalists gather forces against Amazon’s Northwest nuclear plan; the New Orleans Police Superintendent hired former New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton as a consultant in the aftermath of the terror attack on Bourbon Street; and, Alito says he spoke with Trump about a former law clerk getting a low level position in the new administration the day before Trump went to the high court in a push to delay the sentencing in his New York hush-money case.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an imprisoned Belarus activist has resurfaced after being held incommunicado for over seven hundred days; and, an Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks was freed yesterday and returned home.







    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 08 Jan 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 08 Jan 25
    Jan 8 2025
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict New Year’s Day Wednesday, is now available on the Spreaker Player!

    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former Republican Member of Congress and January 6 Intelligence Committee advisor Denver Riggleman has the receipts Trump wants to hide.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department accused six major landlords of colluding to keep rents high; a lawsuit alleges racial and gender discrimination led to an Air Force contractor’s death; and, Virginia Democrats kept control of the Statehouse in the first elections after Trump’s win.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the now pro-Putin Austrian far right has a mandate to try to lead a government for the first time since World War II; and, self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who defeated Maduro in last year’s presidential election, said his son-in-law was kidnapped in Caracas.

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

    Bon Appétit!
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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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